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“You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.”

Knows Should Mind Crazy Ought Arguing Insanity

Author:Billy Joel

“I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.”

People Thinking Should Able Ought Agree Treated Pursue Fulfilling Fulfilling Life

Author:Mark Udall

“Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.”

People Ifs Men Should Kind Two Young Political Three Rich Military Example Son Ready Ought Offers Members All Kinds Council Influential Military Service Rich Family Three Sons

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“If there's anything in life that we should be passionate about, it's the gospel. And I don't mean passionate only about sharing it with others. I mean passionate about thinking about it, dwelling on it, rejoicing in it, allowing it to color the way we look at the world. Only one thing can be of first importance to each of us. And only the gospel ought to be.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Should Firsts Looks Mean One Thing Color Ought Importance Passionate Allowing Rejoice Dwelling Anything In Life

Author:C. J. Mahaney

“From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.”

Should Whole Study Progress Effects Students Ought Periods Disease Observation Witness Sickness Persevere Commencement

Author:Robert James Graves

“Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.”

Thinking Should Humans Kind Ought Absolutes Distress Dependence Consolation Recourse

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we should stop and rethink our strategy, ask ``Why are we here, what are we doing, what's succeeded, what's failed?'' And we ought to do that with the domestic Vietnam, which is the war on drugs.”

Thinking Should War Certain Asks Liberty Ought Drug Strategy Vietnam War On Drugs

Author:Kurt Schmoke

“One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be.”

Should Politics Differences Ought These Days Liberalism

Author:Derek R. Audette

“While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.”

Knows Should Philosophy Science Certain Knowledge Knowing Ignorance Ought Concepts Affair Practicals Certainty Useless Not Knowing Precise Precision Arithmetic Sceptic

Author:Bertrand Russell

“You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.”

Men Should Littles Book Action Walks Attitude Laughing Ought Notes Blow Pockets Strokes Amusement Disputes Rapids Recreation

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.”

Thinking Should Heart Understanding Ought Ill Proof Good Heart Calumny Good Understanding Calumny Is

Author:Robert Emmet

“Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.”

People Knows Should States Morning Know How Car Ought Travel Train Behave Gentleman Good Times Traveled Passengers Rail Intoxication Ladies And Gentlemen Beastly

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.”

Ifs Should Vision Power Ought Will Power Have Courage

Author:Ben Okri

“No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?”

Thinking Should Christian Given Masters Ought Slave Orthodox Orthodox Christian Brethren Cfs

Author:Saint Basil

“To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve.”

Should Believe Ends States Law Nations Industry Ought Standards Bases Paid Determine Various Minimum Wages Sanctions Minimum Wage Massachusetts Living Wage

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.”

Thinking Way Should Moments Motivational Judging Ought Involved Letting Go Projects Garden Busy Pursuit Tendencies Aspiration Gossip Mind Your Own Business

Author:Wayne Dyer

“... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.”

“Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, says that to a certain extent, the worse the crisis, the closer to home you should deal with it. .. You ought to be dealing with the crisis, not explaining things to somebody else.”

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Author:Linda Gray

“Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.”

Ifs Men Should Given Moral Generations College Ought Intellectual Training Ideals Welfare Effectiveness College Education Scholarly Best Education

Author:M. Carey Thomas

“I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Mind Wells Mean Hard Enough Facts Interest My Own Poor Opinion Adventure Theory Ought Oneself Sincere Sentiments Individualism Know Me Egotism Barren Tiresome

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.”

Ifs Thinking Should Stills Winning Ought Vote Gaps There Comes A Time

Author:William J. Clinton

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Art School Young Teach Ought Skills Art Is All Things Regard Young Man Preacher Temperament Music In Schools

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.”

Should Design Ought Critics Notion Judged Execution Preconceived Notions

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.”

Way Should I Can Law Ought Universal Als Maxims Universal Laws

Author:Immanuel Kant

“If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.”

Ifs Should Common Ought Authority Profitable Common Good

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“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

“I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.”

People Way Want Should Understanding Media Products Ought Communicate Belts Avenues Understanding Each Other

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.”

Should Persons Ought Appreciation Tolerance Mood Passing Passings Tolerate Acknowledgment Affront

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe War Ends Seems Asks Ought One Day Rate Fallen

Author:Cesare Pavese

“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

“We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.”

Should May Use Able Order Sides Practice Cases Ought Opposites Solve Arguing Reasoning Unfair

Author:Aristotle

“One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.”

Should Mean Doe Culture Ought Benefits Adapted Liberality

Author:Wallace Stevens

“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”

Should Soul Ought Forests Frightened Witch Witchcraft

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. I, on the contrary, maintain that they ought to be praised in their lifetime if they merit it; but jealousy and calumny, roused against their virtue or their talent, labour to degrade them if any one ventures to bear testimony to them. It is unjust criticism that they should fear to hazard, not sincere praise.”

“What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.”

Should Growth Economy Ought Higher Republican Pie Bushism

Author:George W. Bush

“I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are scientific are bound to study science that their view of the glory of God may be as extensive as their being is capable. But I think that the results which each man arrives at in his attempts to harmonize his science with his Christianity ought not to be regarded as having any significance except to the man himself, and to him only for a time, and should not receive the stamp of a society.”

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:

“Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer.”

Should Writing Ought Theodore

Author:Theodore Dreiser

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“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

“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.”

“I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.”

People Thinking Should Persons Two Religious Ought Should Have Symbols Burning Destroying Documents Historic Respecting Others Taliban Religious Person

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.”

Ifs Giving Should Wells Doe Leader Students Willing Ought Treats Crafts Aspire

Author:Douglas Conant

“Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.”

People Feels Should Faces Speak Greater Ought

Book:Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals

Source: Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals

“When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?”

Men Want Should He Man Ought Should I

Author:Edwin Lefevre

“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)

“As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality.”

Knows World Should Writing May Book Different Sometimes Use Spirit Ought Errors Critics Arrogance Brutality Firmness

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of course, I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.”

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Author:Frans de Waal

“The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body. He has no right to loaf about idly; but after his day's work is done, he ought to harden his young body, so that life may not find him soft when he enters it. No one should be allowed to sin at the expense of posterity, that is, of the race.”

Should May Done Whole Body Young Sin Race Boys Ought Expenses Posterity Cultivation Free Time

Author:Adolf Hitler