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“If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.”

“Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.”

Giving Art Helping Psychology Teacher Teaching Ought Radical Teaching Art

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.”

Ifs Needs Giving Littles Earth Asks Energy Source Ought Clean Environmental Ask Me Excess Adequate Mischief Extremist Environmentalist Energy Sources

Author:Amory Lovins

“Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.”

“I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.”

Giving Mind Firsts Persons Two Christian Christ Mines Ought Christian Inspirational Propositions

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.”

Giving Doe Reason Philosophy Science Simple Doubt Students Ought Capacity Fancy Plausible

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Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…

“Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.”

World Giving May Children Parent Conditions Ought Educate

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.”

“Woman should have the choice whether to have an abortion or not, but I like what Bill Clinton said: It ought to be safe and rare. You don't want to offend people with it. You try and do as much as you can to let people be different, but also to try and protect them from things that they think are bad. And it's worth all of us giving a little.”

People Thinking Want Giving Should Trying Littles Said Different Choices Ought Protect Safe Should Have Bills Clinton Abortion

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.”

Ifs Giving Children Young Evil Parent Natural Advice Ought Careful Inclination Mischief

Book:The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

“To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us on our guard against encroachments of power. This then is a right of utmost importance, one for which, instead of yielding it up, we ought rather to spill our blood.”

Giving Watches Progress Blood Ought Office Importance Presses Endeavor Alarms Spills Free Press Encroachment

Book:The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary

Source: The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton: Documents and Commentary

“I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.”

Giving Ought Evolution Deserve Inevitable Schemes Again And Again Entitled Steers

Author:Arnold Bennett

“Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.”

People Thinking Want Giving I Can Government Careers Taken Share Ought Politician Candidates Conventional Career Politicians

Author:Brad Wenstrup

“The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.”

Way Giving Kind Long Feelings Dies Individual Grows Can Do Tree Example Fine Ought Long Time Conviction Ethical Fertilizer

Author:Albert Einstein

“All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.”

Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc

“A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.”

Ifs Giving May Beautiful Ought Holy Lust Setting Settings Occasions Obscure

Author:Tertullian

“In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.”

Men Giving Wells Doe Happens Asks Sin Ought Sick Sickness Ingratitude Get Well

Book:The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri

“Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.”

Giving Reason Ought Judgment Life And Death Physicians Butchers Jurors

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.”

“We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.”

“Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.”

Giving May Littles Done Lasts Given Ought Benefits Injury Delusion One Time Flavour

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it's one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job... Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.”

“Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?”

People Thinking Knows Giving Years Guy Next President Talking Minutes Ought Kings Dollars Phones Cells Forty Deep Down Cell Phone Larry Waiter One Minute Deceptive

Author:Don Rickles

“A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.”

Giving Should Years Parent Subjects Youth Humility Ought Honor Preserves Purity Despise Modesty Elders Ornaments Forbearance

Author:Ambrose

“Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy involved, that's probably preferable to the bonafide adventure of robbing a bank. A better alternative, however, is to learn to be at peace even when common sense (a highly overrated virtue) would lead you to believe that someone in your situation ought to feel threatened and insecure.”

Giving Feels Believe Bits Common Situation Virtue Adventure Ought Involved Calm Common Sense Despite Alternatives Cash Threatened Insecure Fallacy Overrated Disposable Robbing

Author:Tom Robbins

“The media ought to be just giving a fair shake to everybody.”

Giving Media Ought Fairs Shakes

Author:Ted Cruz

“A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that you're struggling more than you ought to with a draft, perhaps you've run out of interesting choices, or have given yourself too few choices to begin with. Go back to the complication, fatten it up, and start over.”

Ifs Giving Should Writing Wells Character Running Choices Given Fun Interesting Struggle Ought Chosen Starting Over Complication Juggling

Author:Monica Wood

“It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.”

Thinking Giving Ought

Author:L. Whitney Clayton

“Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive.”

Thinking Giving Individual Force Decision Democracy Ought Access Representatives Giving In Wikileaks

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Methodological naturalism gives advice to scientists about what they should include in their theories. There is a second type of methodological naturalism that gives advice to philosophers, which I call "methodological naturalismp." It says that the methods that philosophers should use in assessing philosophical theories are limited to the methods that scientists ought to use in assessing scientific theories.”

Giving Should Use Advice Theory Type Ought Scientist Philosophical Method Philosopher Call Me Naturalism Scientific Theory Assessing

Author:Elliott Sober

“I think when somebody seeks mercy and forgiveness and means it, and I was with [Donald Trump] the entire time, including when he learned about this, people ought to think about that. They ought to think about when somebody asks you for forgiveness contrite and for mercy - are you willing to give it?”

People Thinking Giving Mean Asks Willing Ought Trump Mercy Including Mercy And Forgiveness

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.”

Giving I Can Love Is Ought Absolutes Definitions

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.”

Giving Should May Political Politics Ought Benefits Offense Severity

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.”

People Ifs Giving Felt Acting Mines Ought Scene Obligation

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.”

People Giving Country Care Ought Take Care Humanitarian Aids Chinese Humanitarian Aid

Author:Leon Panetta

“Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.”

Thinking Giving Interest Ought Conflict Satisfaction Dues Compromise Deprived Adversaries Adjustment Conflicting Ideas

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.”

Giving May Matter Beautiful Ought Mathematics Impression Satisfied Mathematical Imperfect Mathematician Impress Appearing Theorems Being Beautiful

Author:George Boole

“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780)”

Giving May Children War Philosophy Order Politics Natural Liberty Learning Study Painting Son Ought Architecture My Son Commerce Agriculture Geography Tapestry Naval Navigation Natural History

Author:John Adams

“I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.”

Ifs World Giving Feels May Has Beens Helping Purpose Opportunity Enjoy Born Ought Gratitude Grateful Luxury Generosity Be Grateful Vulgar Benefactors Assisting

Book:Bleak House: Easyread Edition

Source: Bleak House: Easyread Edition

“I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

People Want Giving Trying Magic Ought Let Me Telling The Truth Realism

Author:Tennessee Williams