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“I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.”

Thinking Want Ideas Joy Found Pleasure Morning Ought Bed Ease Fulfilling Good Education Pleasures Of Life Work You Love

Author:David McCullough

“Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.”

Want Mind Children Littles Real School Language Teach Teacher Ought Program Grades Educate Foreign Language Grades In School

Author:David McCullough

“Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you ought to add, or cut, before you've even finished telling your story. One loses heart; one loses energy and interest. Or at least I do.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Heart Stories Energy Interest Loses Opinion Cutting Dangerous Ought Add Finished Needs And Wants Telling Your Story

Author:Donna Tartt

“Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.”

“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.”

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Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be governed by the standards of how it affects the individual animals, just as we'd want to deal with institutions that deal with humans by how they affect individual humans.”

Thinking Want Humans Individual Animal Deals Modern Ought Standards Institutions Notion Gross Farming Interference

Author:Peter Singer

“Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.”

People Want Matter Ought

Book:The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

Source: The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

“If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.”

Ifs Want Ought Dinner Cooks Shops Groceries

Author:Bill Parcells

“Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.”

Men Want Painting Ought

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.”

Want Action Given Chance Ought Responsible Being Responsible Given A Chance

Author:Monty Roberts

“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

“My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. With respect to how that's affected or regulated by the State, those are State decisions. Different States are likely to make different decisions based upon their own wishes and desire of the people of the State, and that's perfectly acceptable.”

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Author:Dick Cheney

“We live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. We shouldn't be able to choose and say, 'You get to live free and you don't.' That means people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. Like Joe (Lieberman), I'm also wrestling with the extent to which there ought to be legal sanction of those relationships. I think we ought to do everything we can to tolerate and accommodate whatever kind of relationships people want to enter into.”

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Author:Dick Cheney

“For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.”

Want Decision Perspective Ought Eternal

Author:James E. Faust

“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

“ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.”

Thinking Want Should Wells Helping Age Ought Stones Bombs Rejects Isis Modernity Stone Age

Author:Ted Cruz

“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.”

“The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and we need to be united to defeat that because we're going to be in a place that is far less secure than it is today.”

Want Needs Facts Today United Focus Policy Ought Clinton Defeat Secure Foreign Policy

Author:Jeb Bush

“...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.”

“The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did.”

Ifs Thinking Want Enough Remember Advice Ought Hollywood Agents Going Out

Author:Morgan Freeman

“You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.”

Ifs Knows Want Made Kids Teach Know How Ought Election Made It Legislation

Author:Noam Chomsky

“War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.”

Want War Ought Avoided No War

Author:Chief Joseph

“But take the Russia issue. You open up the convention, and you have got a report that the Democratic Party has been hacked by the Russians, e-mails, the e-mails of the Democratic Party, which is a headline and words that you don't want, if you're Hillary Clinton's campaign.And Donald Trump immediately takes the story and basically steps on the advantage he has and say, well, the Russians, who am I to tell [Vladimir] Putin? You know, the Russians ought to come in and continue to hack our - and find out where the e-mails are.”

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Author:Mark Shields

“Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.”

People Want Ought

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.”

Want Ought Argument Vote

Author:John Kasich

“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

“I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.”

People Knows Men World Want America Sex Ought Safe Jazz Public Health

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.”

People Want Reading Ought

Author:Dale Jamieson

“I think this an outrage and I think the fact that the KGB is involved in this election [2016] is an outrage and I think the American people ought to take their democracy back regardless of what the press wants to do and the excuses they want to make for [James] Comey. That's what I think.”

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Author:James Carville

“I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.”

Thinking Knows Want Done Government Care Ought Investing Devoted Being Done Oversight

Author:Warren Buffett

“We've even lost the definition of immigration. "Immigration" today, if you listen to the left, equals anybody who wants to come into the country should be allowed. That's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration, and we ought to all oppose it.”

Ifs Want Should Country Today Lost Left Ought Definitions Immigration Illegal Illegal Immigration

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say we want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.”

People Ifs Knows Want Has Beens Opportunity Given Pay Happened Ought Taxes Track Citizenship Prey Employers Salary Hardworking

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.”

Want Home America Used Guy Ought Army Versions Hunts Bad Guys Drones Hovering Somalia

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.”

Knows Want Wells Trouble Ought Laziness

Book:Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall

Source: Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall

“Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?”

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Author:Ron Paul

“I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.”

People Ifs Want Stories Turns Interesting Attention Ought Discovery Female Love Story Exploring Love Relationship Some Interesting

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.”

World Want Reality Issues Special Ought Logic Comic Dolls Special Places Hobbes Comic Strips

Book:The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Source: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.”

Want Art Joy Friendship Ought Faults Great Friend

Book:First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

“Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.”

“Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.”

Want Government Faces Accepting Technology Ought Degrees University China Recognition Funding

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”

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Author:Lewis Carroll

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”

World Want Stills Used Grace Ought Used To Be Grace Of God Another World I Am What I Am

Author:John Newton

“I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.”

Want Loses Emotion Ought Taste Empty Wine Drinking Dear Glasses Royalty Toasts

Book:The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila , maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it.”

Want Doe Ought Shots Yeah Hey Bottles Cookies Tequila Shots Of Tequila

Author:Kim Harrison

“If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.”

Ifs Men Want Desire Duty Ought Complicated Hold Fast

Author:Julian Barnes

“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

“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.”

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Book:The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

Source: The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

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