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“I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.”

People Thinking Should Able Ought Agree Treated Pursue Fulfilling Fulfilling Life

Author:Mark Udall

“Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.”

Men Doe Able Form Opinion Painting Judging Listening Ought Faults Refuse Judgement Painting A Picture

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.”

Eye Able Values Color Ought Training Appreciation Acquire

Author:John Singer Sargent

“In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.”

People Knows Way Able Spirit Order Left Happened Ought Seeking One Way Grants Weary Veneration Left Handed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.”

Should May Use Able Order Sides Practice Cases Ought Opposites Solve Arguing Reasoning Unfair

Author:Aristotle

“I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.”

People Believe Shows Hands Able Law I Believe Ought Citizens Gun I Believe In Backgrounds Checks Abiding Law Abiding Citizen Background Checks

Author:George W. Bush

“To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.”

People Looks Able Passion Ought Live Passionately

Author:Paul Delaroche

“If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.”

Ifs Knows Kind Able Common Ought Common Sense Public Health Pandemics

Author:Julie Gerberding

“You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.”

World Able Nice Ought Profit Changing The World

Author:John Paul DeJoria

“An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.”

People Looks Able Ought Agents Bombs Site Surfing Fbi Surf Fbi Agents

Author:John Ashcroft

“A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Has Beens Seems Able Lasts Found Natural Simple Effort Expression Ought Good Authors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.”

Knows Feels Humans Ideas Reason Able Certain Lost Realizing Human Beings Forever Ought Mets Intellectual Relation Flesh Circles Labour Brutality Human Relations Dukes Caricatures

Author:George Orwell

“You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.”

Ifs Stories Able Ought

Book:Mystery and Manners

Source: Mystery and Manners

“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.”

Mind Ideas Able Night Knowledge Morning Psychology Fronts Humility Ought Sacred Busy Definitions Cycles Division Cosmology Totality Liver Synthesis Specialization Flukes Archeology

Author:Maureen Duffy