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The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
Mortimer Adler
Try
Mind
Duty
Ought
Philosopher
Never
Making
Making Up
His
Up
Avoid
Mollywood movies are narrated at their own pace, unlike Telugu movies, which ought to be crisp.
Naga Chaitanya
Own
Ought
Unlike
Crisp
Telugu
Pace
Which
Movies
My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.
Neil Morrissey
Relationship
Speak
Early Years
Ought
Our
Those
See
Impact
Rarely
Brothers
Develop
Had
Clearly
Years
Years Ago
Died
Being
Hold
Much
Separated
Dad
Mum
Grudge
Early
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Nicholas Culpeper
Gardening
Ought
Distilled
Also
Greatest
Vigor
Herbs
Flowers
The more women and people of color who find positions of influence, the more women and people of color who will find positions of influence. So we need critical mass, and we're still working toward that. I won't be satisfied until we're at the 50-50 place, where we ought to be.
Nina Jacobson
Women
People
Will
Satisfied
Positions
Ought
Critical
Critical Mass
Find
More
Color
Toward
Mass
Until
Still
Influence
Where
Place
Working
Who
Need
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward
Treat
Glorious
Ought
About
Never
Like
Wit
Spread
Caviar
The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.
Oliver E. Williamson
Government
Good
Organization
Ought
Way
Securities
Examine
Something
More
Economic
Federal
Exchange
Federal Reserve
Mainly
Self-Conscious
Mission
Practices
Itself
Commission
Which
Informed
Them
Should
Organizational
Each
Reserve
Treasury
The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
Orison Swett Marden
You
Year
Think
Ought
Out
Rise
Fact
Advancement
Environment
Mere
Also
Continue
Conditions
May
Just
After
Convince
Your
Many
Conquer
Fatal
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card
Sometimes
Ought
Admiration
Writers
Contempt
Motivation
Wonder
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
Pablo Picasso
Eyes
Better
Ought
Out
Put
Sing
Order
Painters
A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.
Pankaj Mishra
Obligations
People
Free
Society
Other
Starve
Ought
Consist
Moral
Web
Obliged
Them
Rooted
Ignore
Lapse
Actually
Right
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
Parker Palmer
Me
World
Opportunities
Ought
Ways
Gifted
Come
Which
Serve
Million
Serving
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
Paul Auster
You
Mind
Reading
Young
Changing
Ought
About
Writers
New
How
Sound
Your
Keep
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
Paul Begala
Problems
Election
Party
Lost
Strategy
Ought
Our
Presidential
Saw
Presidential Election
Sight
One Of The Problems
Tactics
Winning
Never
Between
Nominee
Forget
Often
Difference
Which
While
Last
If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.
Paul Broun
Good
Uncle
Enough
Ought
Percent
Lord
Sam
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.
Paul Theroux
Life
Truth
You
Truth Is
Matter
Value
Imagination
Lasting
Ought
Mood
See
Give
Prophetic
Write
Prose
Felt
Always
Precisely
Then
Your
Describe
I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.
Peggy Noonan
God
You
Mind
Ought
Everything
Tell
Because
Real
Pray
Lot
Then
Much
Everybody is going to be excited to play in a Super Bowl. When you still enjoy the preparation and the work part of it, I think you ought to be still doing that. I think as soon as I stop enjoying it, if I can't produce, if I can't help a team, that's when I will stop playing.
Peyton Manning
Work
You
Will
Preparation
Enjoy
Think
Everybody
Ought
Super
Super Bowl
Part
Excited
Soon
Bowl
Still
Doing
Going
Stop
Produce
Team
Help
Play
Enjoying
Playing
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
Phil Gramm
Work
People
Pay
Living
Earn
Ought
Say
Head
Fair
Hands
Not Fair
Taxes
Capital
Who
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.
Philip Kearny
You
Enemy
Cowardice
Ought
Say
Responsible
Follow
Prompted
Follow-Up
Only
Take
Instead
Retreating
Up
Order
Declaration
Should
View
Full
Richmond
Treason
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
Heart
Mind
Calamities
Cowardice
Ought
High
Bear
Bearing
Since
Them
Grandeur
Flee
Fleeing
Appears
The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish.
Pliny the Elder
Good
World
Thought
Men
Power
Beginning
Believe
Ought
Immense
All Things
Divine
Never
Name
Call
Perish
Another
Without
Covered
Heaven
Which
Eternal
Reason
Compass
Things
Government policies ought to encourage families to stay together and work hard to improve their lives, not punish them.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Work
Government
Together
Work Hard
Ought
Punish
Stay
Policies
Government Policies
Encourage
Families
Improve
Them
Hard
Lives
Parents and grandparents ought to understand the importance of making sure the next generation excels - and charter schools have proven extraordinarily successful nearly everywhere they've been tried.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Generation
Parents
Extraordinarily
Ought
Everywhere
Tried
Charter
Charter Schools
Importance
Schools
Sure
Understand
Making
Proven
Been
Successful
Next
Grandparents
Next Generation
Nearly
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Man
Matter
Old
Ought
Tell
Would
Some
About
Know
Course
Which
While
Little
Them
Old Man
Many
Grown
Things
I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph
Sports
Writing
Focus
Thought
Young
Ought
About
Studies
Put
Badminton
Instead
Journalism
Like
Sport
Make
Course
Always
Am
Real
Still
Doing
Go
Wanted
While
Even
Keen
Media
Started
Playing
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