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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”

“A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.”

Ifs Long Doe Whole Christian Spirit Realizing Deals Morning Ought Weight Defeat Encounters

Author:Watchman Nee

“Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Philosophy Ought Art Is Paint Photographer Details Painter Ruins Forsake

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.”

Knows Love Mind Wells Littles Long Play Might Today Wanted Lasts Bits Love You Tears Serious Months Ought Terrible Little Bit Argument Vacation Time Love

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'”

Thinking Long Ideas Home Running Sound President Walks Business Cases Fire Plans Building Ought Work Out Ems Beneficial Exit New Home Hoover

Author:Will Rogers

“Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.”

Thinking Way Trying Wells Littles Long Done Hate Next Lord Goes On Ought Quiet Hatred Faults Calm Ill Seeking Torment Discipleship Scrutinize

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State, - ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios, - burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.”

Men World Mind Long Ideas States America Heaven Nations Principles Fate Rights Ought Authority Responsible Titles Breasts Abandon Latin Thinker Locked Solitary Destined Conqueror

Author:Lord Acton

“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.”

Should Long Ideas Law Courses House Common Events Ought Calling Degrees Normal Illusion Errors Notion Stupidity Finished Firm Risen Residual Law Firms

Author:Alain de Botton

“How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.”

Thinking Knows Should Mind Persons Long Justice Effects Ought Habit Fairs Aids Administration Assistance Blunders Habits Of Mind Administration Of Justice

Author:Learned Hand

“Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.”

Knows Men Trying Humans Long Ideas Use Order Leader Ought Normal Accounts Faults Endure Affair Stupidity Factors Inevitable Encounters Attempting Find Me Assistants True Leader

Author:Andre Maurois

“We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.”

Long Ideas States Problem Lasts Guy United United States Military Ought No Idea Bad Guys Superpower

Author:William J. Clinton

“I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.”

Years Long Two Enough Causes Ought Twenties Lifetime Two Years Twenty Two

Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage

“Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.”

Trying Looks Long Spirit Grows Prayer Too Much Ought Draws Weary Fervent Good Prayer

Author:Martin Luther

“People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”

People Ifs Trying May Long Next Seeing Ought Treats England Climate Impression Weather Painter Tuesday Clerks Bad Impression

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.”

“He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own. No person ever lived for our honor; nor ought that to be reputed ours, which was long before we had a being; for what advantage can it be to a blind man to know that his parents had good eyes? Does he see one whit the better?”

Knows Men Persons Long Doe Eye Parent Virtue Ought Honor Advantage Blind Ancestor Boast Ancestry Blind Man

Author:Pierre Charron

“I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Mean Long Whole Sex Records Events Judging Ought Devil Relation Busy Finished Sexism Judged Right Way Inaction Arabian Small Changes Memorandum

Author:Gertrude Bell

“People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.”

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Mean Long Wish Ought Gay Long Time Daughter Unions Our Family My Daughter Arrangements

Author:Dick Cheney

“"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."”

Long Has Beens Said Character Interesting Pieces Ought Comfort This Day Looking Back Interesting Characters

Book:Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

Source: Dombey and Son ... With frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.”

Long Use Culture Community Ought Consequence Doctors And Love Blame Medical Favors Goddess Contagious Venus Astronomers Beauty And Love

Book:The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Looks Long Use Might Lasts Night Left Opinion Morning Air Son Ought Giving Up Authority Picks Claims Breaths Rate Handle Bread My Son Stolen Never Giving Up Last Night Loan

Author:Halldór Laxness

“People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.”

People Want Mind Long War Moving Views Ought Long Time

Author:David Frum

“In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.”

Men Firsts May Long Government Wife Ought Citizens Taste Conscience Concern Affection Neighbor Suits Interfere

Author:Lydia M. Child

“It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.”

“Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.”

“The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.”

People Long Facts Running Justice Cases Ought Determined Statements Long Runs Lag

Author:George C. Homans

“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.”

“We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.”

Mind Heart Long Turns Speak Prayer Ought Theology Stew

Author:John Piper

“The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.”

Men Long Different Law Order Interest Attention Ought Opposites Regulation Deceiving Commerce Businessman Adopted Suspicious Proposal Wealth Of Nations

Author:Adam Smith

“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.”

Thinking World Way Should Long War Facts Fighting Jesus Simple Pay Blood Materials Ought Standards Ideals Humble Oil Rubber Standards Of Living Tin Material Things Simple Ways

Author:Clarence Jordan

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

Ifs Way Long Use Figures Ought Legs Beloved Ties

Book:Beloved

Source: Beloved

“Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about the society, and schools couldn't survive very long if they did that.”

People Ifs World Mean Long Real Self School Teaching Ought Defense Technique Self Defense

Book:Chronicles of dissent

Source: Chronicles of dissent

“Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.”

Way Long Home Time Literature Kindness Ought Long Way Stay Strong Stay Positive Stay At Home

Author:Kin Hubbard

“Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.”

Years Kind Long Happens Process Race Ought Reconciliation Clash Xenophobia Distressing Lenient

Author:Desmond Tutu

“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

“The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.”

Men Long Ought Active Every Man Certainty Probability Prosecution

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.”

Long Has Beens Done Ought Convinced

Author:Francis Cornford

“It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.”

Ifs Long Reality Age Reading Planets Theory Ought Argument Function Died Fundamentals Species Believer Materialism Flaws Afterlife Secular Survived Disagreement Ecosystems Ardent Wagers

Author:Richard Dawkins

“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

“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

“The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that a child that talks back to his parents ought to be stoned at the gates of the city. Those ideas are absurd.”

People Years Children Long Ideas Parent Cities Written Ought Periods Worship Years Ago Filled Property Absurd Gates Long Ago Rejected Homosexual False Gods

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.”

Men Kind May Long Real Known Ought Discovery Merit Concealed Depreciate

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Bias used to say that men ought to calculate life both as if they were fated to live a long and a short time, and that they ought to love one another as if at a future time they would come to hate one another; for that most men were bad.”

Ifs Men Long Used Hate Ought Bias Short Time Love One Another Future Time

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Writing Long Two Novel Know How Ought Long Time

Author:Alice Mattison

“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?”

Long Book Enough Feelings Life Is Reading Ought Thousand Hundred Victim Refuge Oppressed New Books

Book:Over the Teacups

Source: Over the Teacups

“Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.”

Source: Blue Mars

“. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time”

Long Has Beens Inspire Ought Long Time Nostalgia

Author:Michael Chabon

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