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“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“One reason I like to talk about Heaven, think about Heaven and read about Heaven is because, after all, that's where we're going to spend Eternity, so it's a pretty important place and we ought to be pretty interested, don't you think? It's our Eternal Home, the place Jesus has gone to prepare for us forever, so we certainly ought to be interested in it and want to know what it's like and what we're going to be like when we get there!”

Thinking Knows Want Important Reason Home Jesus Heaven Gone Forever Ought Eternal Eternity Heavenly

Author:David Berg

“I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.”

Thinking Men Love Important Love You Ought Quitting More Time End Times Spend Time Surveys

Author:Walter Cronkite

“In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.”

Ifs Thinking Way Art Important Action Difficult Possibility Ought Sitting Organization Discussion Not Sure Fence One Direction Which Way To Go

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.”

Want Wells Important Done Ought Important Things Symbols Expensive Solemn Extravagant Honeymoon

Book:The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts

Source: The Honeymoon: A Comedy in Three Acts

“The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this”

Thinking Needs Important America Community Security Ought Discipline Resources National Security Pentagon

Author:John Kasich

“We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.”

Knows Should Mean Important Different Self Past Nations Identity Ought Culinary Dishes Historic Self Confident

Author:Tom Jaine

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.”

Important States Law Individual Rights Share Subjects Ought Citizens Election Voting Republic Portions Entitled Sovereignty Estimation Elections And Voting

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.”

People Important Form Hurt Havens Ought Amount Anger Recognition Opponents Consideration Scream It Hurts Admitting

Book:Letters of Ayn Rand

Source: Letters of Ayn Rand

“The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.”

Knows Important Done Ought Priorities

Author:Columella

“I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked.”

“It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.”

Ifs Important Artist Energy Enjoy Pieces Fields Ought Come Up Checks Temperature Dreary

Author:Steve Reich

“The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.”

“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.”

Love Two Important Names Ought Snow Fifty Valentine Valentine's Day Valentine Love Valentines Day Love Romantic Valentines Day Cute Valentines Day Valentines Day Cards Be My Valentine Valentine Card

Book:Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.”

Believe Important Home I Believe Goal Support Ought Jew Sovereignty Governance

Author:Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

“Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.”

May Children Important America Opportunity Poor Roles Economic Childhood Ought Needed Skills Function Recognition Someday Realistic Readiness More To Life Poor Children

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Certainly every Christian ought to be praying and working to nullify the abominable abortion law. But as we work and pray, we should have in mind not only this important issue as though it stood alone. Rather, we should be struggling and praying that this whole other total entity "(this godless) worldview" can be rolled back with all its results across all of life.”

Should Mind Important Whole Christian Law Results Struggle Issues Ought Praying Should Have Abortion Entity Worldview Important Issues Abortion Laws

Book:The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west

Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west

“Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.”

“The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.”

Ifs Thinking Important Hard Happens Race Talent Particular Willing Ought Lessons Determine Gender Limitation Horizon Categories Be You Impart Important Lessons

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.”

May Important Ability Fate Depends Ought Equal Kingdoms Command Chiefs Stations Possessed Commanders Commander In Chief Admiral

Book:Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

Source: Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

“I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.”

“[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.”

Knows May Made Important Reason Ought Eating Picks Appreciate Noses Knives Incapable Persuasion Admirable Peas

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“Christians are to be salt and light in everything they do, be it in their church, in their business, in their school, or in their government.... If you think "preaching the Gospel" is important like I do, then you ought to think politics is important too. Why? Because politics and law affects your ability to preach the Gospel!”

Ifs Thinking Important Light Government School Christian Law Church Ability Ought Salt Preaching Preaching The Gospel Salt And Light

Author:Frank Turek

“Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.”

Ifs Want Wells Important Culture Ought Ideals Aim Decent Hopeful Our Society

Author:Karl Rove

“I'm for ethanol, and I think it's a very important partial ingredient of the overall mix of alternative and renewable fuels we ought to commit to.”

Thinking Important Ought Commit Alternatives Fuel Ingredients Ethanol

Author:John F. Kerry

“Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.”

Important Matter Together Law Justice Ought Taxes Argument Lawyer Department Recommendations

Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“I did it through our ministries. We had ordination and basically understanding there ought - to be ordained that God has set apart, for the purposes of ministry. This is an important thing because of that defining moment, when I held that word up, I said I want to spend the rest of my life helping people.”

People Want Said Important Moments Helping Purpose Understanding Ought Important Things Ministry Helping People Defining Defining Moments Ordination

Author:Paula White

“When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.”

People Thinking Believe Important Asks Ought Trade

Author:John Kasich

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