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“I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.”

Thinking Social Security Ought Protect Fund Social Security

Author:John McCain

“Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'”

Ifs Knows Together Asks Honest Ought Get Together

Author:Dick Cavett

“The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.”

Men Bigs Names Ought Fame Fancy Great Men Judged

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied.”

Chance Events Ought Errors Commit Fulfilled

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.”

Men Firsts Moments Rights Duty Ought Birth Exercise Deserve Instant Citizenship Moments Of Life

Book:The social contract: and, Discourses

Source: The social contract: and, Discourses

“Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then and there can we really enjoy the beauty of the new leaves and flowers. Likewise, we must clear the murkiness of the past bad experiences from our minds. Life is remembrance in forgetfulness. Forgive what ought to be forgiven; forget what ought to be forgotten. Let us embrace life with renewed vigor. We should be able to face every moment of life with renewed expectation, like a freshly blossomed flower.”

“Folks who go through the tabloids ought to have to be lied to.”

Ought Folks Lied Tabloids

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.”

People Ifs Ought Offended Offending Offended You

Author:Noam Chomsky

“A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.”

Two Young Ought Two Things Breathtaking Young Ladies

Author:Coco Chanel

“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.”

“I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.”

Ifs Thinking Way States Today Together United United States Serious Materials Ought Findings Program Nuclear Administration Replaced Organize

Author:Richard Perle

“Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.”

Mind Ought Citizens Novelists Compliment

Author:Don DeLillo

“The outsourcing gurus have been driving the theory, and they are saying everybody ought always to do this. But it is really contingent on where you are on the spectrum from "not good enough" to "more than good enough," relative to each tier of the market.”

Has Beens Enough Theory Ought Driving Good Enough Where You Are Relative Spectrum Guru Not Good Enough Outsourcing

Author:Clayton Christensen

“The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.”

People Three Black Born Justice Century Color Baby Ought Prison Males Reports Jail Astonishing Black Males Baby Born

Author:Bryan Stevenson

“The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.”

Firsts Looks Brain Figures Materials Ought Checks Verify

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.”

Want Should Humans Culture Rights Economic Ought Speech Human Rights Productions Statements Freedom Of Speech Reproduction

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.”

“They are people who, by and large, think the Administration's policy - and the Iranian case is a classic one - is very stupid. They can't get that view in, and so by talking to me, they accomplish something. It's a way of saying, this ought to be discussed, we got to get this out. That's a form of patriotism, in a funny way.”

People Thinking Way Form Views Talking Cases Stupid Policy Ought Accomplish Administration Classic Iranian Very Stupid

Author:Seymour Hersh

“I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.”

Way Needs Firsts Feelings Film Bits My Own Novel Ought My Way Workspace

Author:William Monahan

“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”

Men Kind Running Law Nature Justice Ought Revenge Weed Marijuana Best Revenge Exacting Revenge

Author:Francis Bacon

“I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.”

Ifs Thinking Want Enough Remember Advice Ought Hollywood Agents Going Out

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Westbrook Pegler suggested that in the period, I think the late 40s, when the investigations of Communism were opening up during the Cold War, that she ought to be called and required to testify about what she knew. I remember he said, "Would the world vanish in a blast of flame if this old woman were subpoenaed and compelled to tell what she knows about the Communist Party's activities in the United States?"”

“I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.”

People Ifs Said Eye Guy Asks Found Stuff My Own Interesting Fiction Class Teacher Magic Ought One Day Hey Generous Professors This Guy

Author:John D'Agata

“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”

Home Boys Ought Thousand Miles Vietnam Asian Vietnam War Miles Away Away From Home Thousand Miles

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.”

People Thinking Men Law Black Arms Ought Gun Bearing Arms Pro Gun

Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.

“Libya was a terrible mistake. You know, frankly, that's something that people ought to be thinking about in regard to Hillary [Clinton]. You know, they talk about Benghazi, which is very legitimate. Of course it is. But we should never have deposed [Muamar] Gaddafi. That was a terrible mistake.”

People Thinking Knows Should Courses Mistake Ought Terrible Regard Clinton Libya Benghazi Gaddafi

Author:John Kasich

“But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we're a melting pot. And as long as people have positive and good intent, they ought to be able to come.”

People Trying Long Able America Term Religious Ought Standards Pot Melting Melting Pot

Author:John Kasich

“Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that pains are C-fibres, then I ought no longer to have any room for the thought that 'they' might come apart. His argument is that, since pains aren't identified via some contingent description, but in terms of how they feel, I have no good way of constructing a possible world, so to speak, where C-fibres are present yet pains absent.”

Ifs World Way Feels Mind Might Pain Speak Term Rooms Brain Identity Ought Argument Like Me Description Absent Good Way Contingency

Author:David Papineau

“On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.”

“While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average employee pay and the enormous severance packages leaders obtain even as front-line workers see their economic well-being eviscerated makes a mockery of the idea that leaders do anything other than take care of themselves.”

Wells Ideas Care Lasts Differences Lines Pay Leader Economic Fronts Ought Evidence Workers Average Take Care Enormous Well Being Employee Ceo Packages Mockery

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Externalists reject any such view. I think that the idea that we can tell, simply by way of reflection, whether our beliefs are justified, is deeply commonsensical. More than that, the idea that responsible epistemic agents ought to reflect on their beliefs, and hold them only if they somehow pass muster, is utterly natural.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ideas Belief Natural Views Ought Reflection Responsible Agents Rejects Justified Muster

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Said Saws Teacher Happened Serious Ought Goodness Very Good Not Sure English Teacher

Author:Maggie Smith

“You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.”

Character Able Ought

Author:Andy Daly

“In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.”

Philosophy Views Ought Notion Analytics Synthetic

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.”

Knows Different Perspective Ought Philosopher Different Things Aspire Synthetic

Author:Philip Kitcher

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”

Men Littles Reading Education Ought Tasks Literacy Inclination Great Reading Good Reading Reading And Learning

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I had no steering. I do think it's true that when you're younger, you're more likely to listen to all the naysayers, and people are always telling you how you ought to behave and what kind of job you should get and how you should look.”

People Thinking Should Looks Kind Jobs Remember Ought Laughter Behave Wheels Engines Steering Naysayers

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.”

People Believe I Believe Economy Streets Wall Ought Conversation Happenings

Author:Alison Stewart

“Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.”

Virtue Judging Ought Integrity All Things Witty Tongue Portions Plausible

Author:Francis Bacon

“I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?"”

People Thinking Used Church Ought Integrated

Author:Michael Emerson

“I think it's going to open up a wider place for a discussion about we ought to come together in our churches, in our neighborhoods, in our work places, in our clubs and our networks. I think it'll be more acceptable to talk about it. We'll see what happens. It'll take some time. But I think it will.”

Thinking Happens Together Church Ought Clubs Discussion Neighborhood Acceptable Work Place

Author:Michael Emerson

“So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.”

“I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.”

Thinking Honest Ought Being Honest Closest Juliet

Author:Matt Lucas

“I don't see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something new that will help us go to the moons of Saturn okay and so we ought to use that to breed new breakthroughs and to test new breakthroughs and to fund it.”

Helping Use Ought Moon Tests Okay Dollars Spending Billions Fund Something New Breakthrough Beneficial Saturn

Author:Burt Rutan

“If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.”

Ifs Spirit Can Do Our Lives Ought Holy Bases Holy Spirit Cooperation Almighty Subconscious Consent

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.”

Thinking Kind Stills Courses Subjects Students Ought Manage Harvard

Author:Louis Menand

“I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.”

People Knows Way Jobs President Poor Quality Brother Baby Ought Kings Office Concerned Dear Being True Barack Afghanistan Vietnam Housing Luther President Barack Obama Gaza Oval Dear Brother

Author:Cornel West

“Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don't think that the words are necessarily nullified. It's just that that context is something you ought to be suspicious of.”

Thinking Long Doe Quality Ought Interviews Suspicious High Quality Playboy Objectification

Author:Cornel West

“Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.”

Choices Compassion Practice Ought Guides Expected Buddhist Refuge Vow Veganism Our Choices

Author:Norm Phelps

“The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.”

Laughing Ought Lessons Laughter Foolish Commit Occasions

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

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