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• If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Names, Lasts

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• Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.

  Bret Lott

  Writing, Views, Needs

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• Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.

  Clarence Jordan

  Jesus, War, Humble

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• Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.

  Hugh Hardy

  People, Details, Looks

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• Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

  Peter Prange

  People, Want, Matter

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.

  Francoise Gilot

  Thinking, Nurse, Suffering

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• A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

  Julien Gracq

  Victory, Literature, Lists

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• Since we're all rich with bitcoins ... we ought to put some of this unearned wealth to good use.

  Hal Finney

  Use, Bitcoin, Wealth

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• I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think that the terminology ought to prejudice us one way or the other. So I think the more descriptive term is 'liberty rights' versus 'welfare rights'. So, liberty rights are freedom-of-action type rights, and welfare rights are rights-to-stuff, of various kinds...And, property rights are not rights-to-stuff. I think that's one of the key misunderstandings about property. Property rights are the rights to liberty within your jurisdiction.

  Randy Barnett

  Thinking, Keys, Rights

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• Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.

  Ann Leckie

  Regret, Mean, Night

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• Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?" I say that's a secondary issue. The first priority is to stop thugs from making education impossible for everyone else.

  Walter E. Williams

  Thug, Issues, Priorities

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• Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

  Martin Luther

  Yield, Wind, Touching

  Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.215

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• To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

  Jane Austen

  Teacher, School, Men

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.203, Pan Macmillan

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• ... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Believe, White, Black

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• If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

  Toni Morrison

  Ties, Long, Use

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.1, Random House

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• The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Justice

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.

  Mary Carolyn Davies

  May, Might, Forget

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• A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.

  Laurent A. Daloz

  Education, People, Feelings

  Laurent A. Daloz (1986). “Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences”, Jossey-Bass

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• That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Awards, Body, Good Times

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think people ought to realize that if you're doing investigative reporting, you're putting something on your newspaper or on your website that no one can get anywhere else, and theoretically at least, that should make people subscribe.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Thinking, People, Realizing

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

  John Boehner

  Law, Judged

  "For Once, Congress Plans To Go On Recess Without A Meltdown". Interview with David Welna, www.npr.org. August 1, 2013.

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• There ought to be a better way than government to run the world.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Running, Government, World

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• We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

  Stephen Baxter

  Men

  Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.57, Random House

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• Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people
  like God loves them

  Bill Hybels

  People, Church, God Love

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