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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.
U.S. infrastructure projects ought to support workers and create jobs in South Bend and Gary, not in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
It's a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.
I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.
We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what we're going to do. And we've already started the process.
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
The bedrock principle of separation of powers ought to be upheld regardless of the (D) or (R) that rests behind a given president's name.
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.
Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.
Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.
A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.
MTV Unplugged is an interesting platform. They are doing a good job promoting a kind of music that ought to be heard.
I believe that Iowa is - and ought to be - a place where, if you're willing to work for it, you can make your dreams come true.
People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.
When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that.
I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.
... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
I mean, the Obama position has been, "We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it."
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which
Men are and ought to be accountable,--
If not to Thee, to those they influence.
