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What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
Jung Chang
Will
Cruelty
Society
Otherwise
Marked
Ought
Further
Totally
Another
Upheaval
Revolutions
Just
Chinese
Wars
Level
Reject
On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
Karl Philipp Moritz
Day
Ought
Abbey
See
Gloomy
Very
Westminster
Just
Dismal
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Work
Art
World
Ought
Complete
Entirely
Like
Isolated
Surrounding
Itself
Hedgehog
Little
Aphorism
Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that.
Keir Starmer
Work
Son
Ought
Local
Our
See
Five-Year-Old
Appeal
Thinks
We have the wrong people chasing Osama bin Laden. It ought to be athletic directors and reporters. They'll find you.
Kelvin Sampson
You
People
Chasing
Ought
Find
Athletic
Directors
Wrong
Reporters
Bin
The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.
Ken Mehlman
Man
Woman
Marriage
People
Will
Country
Believe
President
Ought
Strongly
Something
He
Between
Also
Judges
Impose
Decided
Believes
By The People
Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.
Kevin Cramer
Positive
Angry
People
World
Sometimes
Negative
Conservatives
Ought
Ourselves
Find
Finding
Joyful
Most
Message
Because
Send
Being
Should
Compassionate
Corrupt bureaucrats and cops ought to dismissed or compulsorily retired from service, as they are a drain on the service. Their performance must be vigorously assessed.
Kiran Bedi
Service
Ought
Must
Corrupt
Retired
Performance
Bureaucrats
Dismissed
Assessed
Cops
Drain
I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
Lamar Alexander
Change
Think
Ought
Air
Evidence
Plenty
Look
Alternatives
Climate
Climate Change
Contributing
Stop
Much
Carbon
Need
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter
You
Man
Ought
More
Remarks
He
Knows
Than
Censor
Expert
Cutting
Who
Thinks
What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Stage
President
Ought
Our
Evidence
See
Seems
Given
Join
Allies
Clear
Understand
Effort
Closest
Quite
Capable
Us
Convincing
Even
Why
There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.
Lawrence Eagleburger
Try
Example
Other
Pumping
Ought
Bit
Syria
Focusing
Weapons
Through
For Example
Well
Because
Terrorist
Israel
Doing
Iran
Lot
Targets
Stop
Which
Forth
Then
Producing
Agony
Palestine
And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.
Lawrence Halprin
Me
You
Sense
Ought
Philosophical
Finally
Draw
Give
Get
Done
Where
Mean
Then
Really
Consensus
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.
Leland Stanford
Life
Good
Great
Ought
Vast
Unrest
Masses
Condition
Accomplished
May
Realizing
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Lillian Smith
Overcome
Ought
Concealed
Lack
Cannot
Belief
Defect
The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.
Linda McMahon
People
Country
Think
Increases
Ought
Our
Minimum
Minimum Wage
How
Wage
How Much
Review
Lot
Whether
Much
Now
Set
I don't believe we ought to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. If people are in a same-sex relationship, and they want their partner to be able to have health benefits or be designated as a beneficiary in your life insurance, there's no reason we shouldn't do that.
Liz Cheney
Life
Health
Relationship
People
Benefits
Partner
Believe
Ought
Sexual
Able
Life Insurance
No Reason
Health Benefits
Because
Insurance
Discriminate
Same-Sex
Want
Against
Your
Reason
Orientation
But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
Margaret Spellings
Holding
Believe
Other
Programs
Ought
Those
Folks
Results
Also
Accountable
Get
Closest
Decide
Which
Notion
Evaluate
Ground
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
Maria Edgeworth
Law
Ought
Our
Case
Seems
Make
Reverse
Very
Done
Should
Right
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
Marilyn Monroe
Best
Me
You
People
Obligation
Money
Worth
Ought
Mine
Say
Hi
Slightest
Give
Scene
Had
Toward
Come
Felt
Always
Get
Just
Them
Even
I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.
Mark Udall
Style
Military
Society
Ought
Our
Weapons
Come
Well
Conclusion
Years
Ban
Any
Place
Us
Really
Assault
Served
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.
Mark Udall
Life
Love
People
Think
Ought
Everyone
Would
Able
Pursue
Most
Equally
American
Should
Fulfilling
Agree
Treated
I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.
Mark Waid
Buy
You
Big
Own
Ought
Big Believer
Comic
Believer
Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
Marsha Blackburn
Government
Time
Problem
Focus
Ought
Our
Spending
Fine
Does
Priority
Revenue
Begin
Decide
Tune
In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.
Martin Chemnitz
God
Faith
Nature
Man
Christ
Made
First
Ought
Our
Neighbor
Has-Been
Brother
Lay
He
First Place
Been
Hold
Place
Which
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
Mary Astell
Happy
Ought
Our
Possibly
Perfecting
Endeavour
May
Much
Beings
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