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“We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put together. Otherwise people might not read the signs.”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.”

People Needs Trying Humans Self Human Beings Ought Vulnerable Sufficient Good Life Self Sufficient

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.”

World Needs Believe Order Ought Window Myopic

Author:Maya Soetoro-Ng

“The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.”

Thinking Needs Trying Has Beens Helping Media Ought Republican Criticism Trauma Convinced Decades Therapy

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.”

“To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.”

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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”

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Author:Ernest Rutherford

“We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.”

Needs Should Government Lost Levels Ought Program Spending Budgets Agency Department

Book:Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

Source: Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property

“But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live”

Needs Ought Prophet

Book:Ishmael: A Novel

Source: Ishmael: A Novel

“Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.” Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we’re trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, “I never let my kids get away with that.” We really all need to chill out.”

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Author:Dean Hughes

“One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.”

Needs Ought Harm Possessed

Author:Dante Alighieri