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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
Evelyn Waugh
Class
People
Ought
Static
Sexes
Division
Instead
Absurd
Dynamic
If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.
Evgeny Morozov
Political
Oppose
Thanks
Control
Ought
Markets
More
Networks
Arguing
New
Like
Matching
Rent
Efficient
Just
Short-Term
Social
Create
Social Networks
Grounds
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Youth
Generation
Own
Ought
Critics
Write
Schoolmaster
His
Author
Afterwards
Next
Ever
Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed.
Fabrizio Moreira
You
Business
Before
Own
Ought
Once
Ensure
Unable
Take
Part
Simply
Obtain
Without
Motion
Where
Order
Biggest
Succeed
Might
Plan
Created
Your
Planning
Start
Careful
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount
Happiness
Hope
Best
People
Sense
Ought
Spells
Faults
Out
Kind
Vividly
Most
Terrible
Because
Still
America
Want
Regardless
Mankind
Actually
Last
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
Florence Nightingale
Day
Better
Face
Every
Too
Nurse
Ought
Be Careful
Frequently
Very
Hands
Much
Wash
Her
Careful
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Frances Wright
Knowledge
Human Being
Mind
Will
Every
Ought
Vary
Trained
Same
May
Human
Being
Receive
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.
Francis Atterbury
God
World
Made
Whatever
Live
Believe
Other
Ought
Evidence
Those
Out
Would
Hath
Induced
Messenger
Discoveries
God Hath
Any
Which
Against
Scriptures
Sent
Stand
Who
Even
Express
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
Men
Others
Ought
Write
Beholden
Much
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
Francis Ford Coppola
Love
Time
You
Hate
Will
Ought
Over
Because
Doing
Movie
To Love
Really
Start
I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.
Frank Deford
Game
Independence
Bad Things
Think
Ought
Rule
Say
Penalties
Bad
Would
Athletes
Determining
Joint
Retain
Retired
League
Major
Leagues
Major Leagues
Sport
Judges
Within
Doing
Up
Get
Commission
Accused
Committed
Then
Should
Who
Each
Away
Things
Four
Players
Set
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Frank Moore Colby
Day
Great
Man
Heart
Down
Every
Ought
Sun
Inquisitive
Shadow
Cast
Shall
Through
He
Adventure
Longer
Hour
Excuse
Without
Continuance
His
Question
Dies
Every Man
I have never really tried to forge my own identity. As followers of Jesus Christ, we ought to forge our identity in Him.
Franklin Graham
Christ
Own
Ought
Our
Tried
Followers
My Own
Never
Identity
Him
Forge
Really
Jesus
Jesus Christ
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
Garrison Keillor
Me
People
Competition
Think
Competitor
Other
Ought
Say
Tempted
Write
Writers
Feel
Like
Am
Go
Encouraging
Not Interested
Interested
Should
Who
Things
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
Gary Bauer
Love
Government
Time
Better
Power
Ought
Our
Embrace
More
Small
Both
Small Government
Federal
Federal Government
Idea
Return
Always
American
Dependent
Largesse
Founders
Millions
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
Gary Herbert
Mind
Made
Ought
Out
Permanent
Tax
Tax Cuts
Bush
Bush Tax Cuts
Cuts
Certainty
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
Gary Johnson
Needs
Age
Ought
Security
Some
Scheme
Retirement
Retirement Age
Testing
Sustainable
Social
Means
Social Security
Portion
Raised
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Geoffrey Fisher
God
Alone
Man
Responsibility
Society
Ought
Crimes
Civilized
Civilized Society
Most
Likely
Ultimate
Sins
Treated
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.
George Boole
Beautiful
Matter
Satisfied
Ought
Correct
About
Something
Gives
Imperfect
Never
Until
Also
How
Mathematical
Impression
May
Being
Being Beautiful
Theorem
Appear
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
George C. Williams
Understanding
Ought
Religions
Disappeared
Over
Attitudes
Traditional
Accumulate
Century
Many
Foster
Biological
Last
Last Century
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.
George Edmund Street
Me
Fault
Men
Country
Marked
Ought
Distinct
Churches
Ancient
Seems
Taken
Failed
Between
Towns
Most
Been
Discover
Models
Difference
Them
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot
Best
Failure
Man
Fear
Word
Seen
Ought
Proof
Only
Sees
Purpose
He
Behind
Against
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
George Saunders
Positive
Work
You
World
Better
Thought
Somewhere
Think
Too
Ought
Scale
Out
Kind
Would
Than
Model
Where
Fiction
Turn
Then
Things
I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
George William Norris
World
Think
Ought
Would
Take
Like
We ought to disarm Germany completely.
George William Norris
Ought
Disarm
Germany
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Gijs de Vries
War
Ought
Circumstances
Civilians
Indiscriminate
Attacks
Illegal
Peacetime
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