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There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.
Charles Spurgeon
Thankful
Feeling
Christian
Ought
Spirit
General
Such A Thing
Thing
Universal
Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.
Chiang Kai-shek
Service
People
Political
Men
Three
Example
Young
Rich
Military
Ought
Members
At Least One
Kinds
Sons
Ready
Least
Offer
Families
Influential
Themselves
Should
Military Service
Two
Set
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
Chief Joseph
War
Ought
Want
Avoided
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.
David Ogilvy
Political
Ought
Kind
Totally
Only
Advertising
Left
Stopped
Dishonest
Really
I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.
Dick Cheney
Time
Freedom
Family
Gay
You
People
Free
Long
Long Time
Wish
Think
Ought
Everyone
Our
Enter
Kind
Something
Daughters
Freedom Means
Know
Arrangement
Any
Means
Union
Many
Lived
I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Great
Me
Heart
Fight
Satan
Better
Matter
Enemies
Christ
Own
Wicked
Tremble
Ought
Easy
My Own
More
Shall
Come
Know
Sure
Am
Off
Than
Get
Reason
Lest
Strengthening
A person like me who has grown up in a mixed culture ought to be spiritual. My mother is a Catholic, my father is a Muslim, and my wife is a Hindu. Personally, I feel spirituality is about being clear-hearted. It involves a sense of connection with the divine.
Emraan Hashmi
Spiritual
Me
Culture
Mother
Father
Wife
Spirituality
Sense
Ought
Muslim
About
Divine
Feel
Like
Involves
Catholic
Hindu
Mixed
Up
Person
Being
Personally
Who
Connection
Grown
Grown-Up
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford
Needs
You
Better
Experiment
Ought
Statistics
Done
Your
Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.
Evel Knievel
Women
Evil
Ought
Know
Women Are
Root
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound
Art
Together
Three
Tea
Ought
Must
Find
Marry
Someone
More
Week
Take
Part
Him
His
Times
Than
Artist
After
Which
Interested
Them
Illegal
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom
Too
Late
Ought
Never
Merely
Because
Often
Reject
To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.
George Muller
God
Prayer
Together
Word
Will
Ought
Spirit
Through
Him
Lord
Go
His
Repeatedly
Ascertain
Ask
Us
Should
Means
Teach
Use
United
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth
You
Matters
Publish
Ought
Nine
Out
Proof
Something
Ten
Fact
Times
Want
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.
Gordon B. Hinckley
God
Treat
Sense
Other
Ought
Way
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Daughters
Sons
Very
Sisters
Literal
Therefore
Each
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
Harriet Martineau
Responsibility
Ought
Honorable
More
Qualifications
Involves
Than
Office
Which
Requires
Teaching
Therefore
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Henrik Ibsen
Time
Health
People
Healthy
Decency
Waste Time
Ought
About
Know
How
Get
Buried
Themselves
Who
Keep
Waste
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.
Huston Smith
Future
Time
Best
History
Better
Ought
Our
Spend
Our Time
Recognize
Out
Depends
Orders
Whether
Turn
Planet
Marching
Things
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin
Life
Everybody
Side
Ought
East
East Side
Lower
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.
James Monroe
Best
Nation
Ought
Advantage
Stock
Which
Public
Lands
Public Lands
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Will
First
Ought
He
Know
Most
Learn
First Thing
Child
The First Thing
Endure
Which
Thing
Need
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
John Witherspoon
Conversation
Trust
Men
Wish
State
Ought
Those
Inward
Well
Principle
Exemplary
Places
Justified
Choose
Who
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Good
Man
Business
Half
Ought
Must
Only
Troublesome
He
Call
Understand
How
His
Hand
Artist
Artistic
Heavens
Artwork
Where
Order
Ask
Really
Things
Receive
Need
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi
Man
Ought
Ideal
Self-Sufficiency
Being
Interdependence
Social
Much
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe
Girl
Trouble
Ought
Worry
Cleavage
She
Any
Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.
Marquis de Lafayette
Politics
Fear
Depend
Other
Ought
Our
Unless
Danger
Indeed
States
Immediately
Stroke
Lies
Strongly
Taken
Bound
Continental
Revised
Articles
Confederation
America
Wanting
Measures
Union
European
Each
Last
British
Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!
Merle Haggard
Time
Think
Everybody
Ought
Carlin
Charge
Kinda
Nobody
Like
Well
Sort
George
George Carlin
Where
Want
Should
Now
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