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“There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.”

People Want Made Matter Seems Left Trouble Groups Ought Politician Safe Negative Sticks Lists Instance Target Unfair Say Anything

Author:Andy Rooney

“If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.”

Ifs Might Pain Trouble Ought Deceiving Disguise

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.”

Ifs Want Firsts Children Made School Can Do Trouble Atheism Inspire Ought Prove Foundation Positive Atheism Mess Better Life Public Education

Author:Bill Cosby

“According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.”

Ifs Wells Done Dies Lost Left Causes Chance Trouble Ought Worship Doctrine Neglect Worth It

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.”

Men Mind Wells Hours Walks Brain Wise Imagine Trouble Advice Ought Walking Exercise Constitution Legs Active Sentences Mistaken One Hour Very Wise Physically Active Wise Advice

Author:George Sand

“The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.”

Persons Made Enemy Trouble Ought Criticism Tragedy Theater Notion Innocent Triumph Possessed Virtuous Distress Innocent Person

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.”

People Philosophy Fall Trouble Ought Patient Block Be Patient

Author:Frederic Raphael

“That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.”

Body Young Trouble Ought Excited Hungry Good Times Awards Assurance Wrong Time

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.”

Men Wise Trouble Ought Deserve Useless More Time Unworthy Trifling Useless Things

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study