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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
Thomas Huxley
Fashion
History
Young
Believe
Ought
Evolution
New
Make
Intelligible
Taught
Process
Might
Meaning
Meaning Of
The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.
Thomas Mallon
Light
Solar
Job
Ought
Once
Dirty
Powerful
Chemical
Sailing
Green
Done
Appeal
Traveling
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
Thomas Nashe
Learning
Behavior
Ought
Our
Our Lives
Study
Private
Amendment
Fruits
Public
Appear
Lives
I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.
Thomas Rhett
Day
Experience
Country
Think
Everybody
Ought
One Day
Out
See
Something
Road
Get
Artist
Going
Just
Loved
Necessarily
But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.
Tim Kaine
You
Happy
People
Party
Congress
Warrior
Every
Ought
Lifting
Know
Democrats
Proud
Very
Done
Heavy
Reason
Now
Right
If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.
Tim Walberg
You
School
Congress
Ought
Meeting
States
School Board
Town
Town Hall
Hall
Acceptable
Halls
Pray
Want
Board
United
United States
The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
Timothy Noah
Presidency
Ought
Remain
Clinton
Blot
Sudan
Bombing
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
Todd Gitlin
Government
Vote
Book
World
Made
Power
Everybody
State
Ought
States
Focused
Some
Case
Determining
Could
Policies
Because
Around
Least
Governs
American
Much
United
United States
'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.
Tom Price
Human Being
Law
Pulse
Ought
License
More
Counsel
Than
Human
Being
Require
Competent
At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
Val Guest
You
Comedy
Thought
Ought
Those
Somehow
Rut
Suppose
Call
Got
Times
Break
Used
Suddenly
Away
You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
Vera Farmiga
You
Perspective
Ought
Making
Film
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Victor Hugo
Life
Sometimes
Ought
Say
Says
Bored
Rather
He
Himself
Because
Lack
I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
Victoria Beckham
Love
Made
Ought
Compulsory
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
Viggo Mortensen
Few
Ought
Exceptions
Always
Afraid
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Vikram Seth
Myself
Writing
Thought
Suitable
Ought
Write
Never
Force
Boy
Short
After
Anything
Short Story
Story
Even
Start
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
Wallace Shawn
Love
Patriotism
Country
Own
Else
Ought
Considered
Someone
Emotion
Feel
Than
Person
To Love
Your
Why
I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
Walter Cronkite
Think
Ought
Cameras
Certainly
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
Walter Lang
God
Word
Language
Doubt
Universe
Ought
Stated
He
Clear
Concise
How
His
Created
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott
You
Side
Ought
Once
Rise
Over
Hour
Up
After
Which
Turn
Turn-On
Your
Bolt
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.
Wangari Maathai
Saying
Colonialism
Ought
Terrible
Yes
Legacy
Moving
Moving Away
Wars
Describe
Now
Away
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
Great
Evil
Thought
Rich
Ought
Honored
Great Evil
Destructive
Has-Been
Rather
Arising
Name
Another
Been
Which
Poor
Gambling
Thing
Desire
Speculation
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
William Graham Sumner
Property
Ought
Folly
Laws
Against
Guarantee
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James
Mind
Ought
Background
Dim
We Cannot
Somehow
Know
Doing
Cannot
Start
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
William Safire
Mind
Become
Ought
Able
Make
Reader
Contents
Familiar
Manageable
Hold
Organized
Companion
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
William Vickrey
Job
Situation
Living
Ought
Willing
Responsible
Find
Hours
Employment
Practically
Accept
Within
Wage
Person
Any
Which
Available
Paying
Reasonably
Living Wage
Desirable
We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked.
Yemi Osinbajo
Financial
Seen
First
Difficult
Ought
Back
Those
System
Financial System
Most
First Place
How
Were
Questions
Get
Stolen
Just
Banks
Place
Asked
International
Even
Assets
Routine
Received
Nigeria
Funds
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