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Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Miguel de Cervantes
Life
Man
Liberty
Honor
Ought
Hazard
Well
Without
His
Preserve
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Faith
Wise
Ought
Ruler
Would
Would-Be
Never
Doing
His
Against
Interests
Keep
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Orson Welles
Ought
Say
Misbehave
Could
Look
We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Pablo Casals
Humanity
Live
Think
Tree
Others
Ought
We Cannot
Without
Leaves
Cannot
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
Paul Wellstone
Best
People
Nation
National
Thinking
Ought
Our
Way
Kind
Possibly
Kinds
About
Could
Beyond
How
Goal
Children
Product
Help
When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.
Richard P. Feynman
Time
Library
Man
Important
Reading
Ought
About
Knew
Calculus
Practical
Learn
Subject
Encyclopedia
Get
Going
Interesting
Thirteen
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
Robert M. Pirsig
Truth
Best
Good
You
Think
Ought
Tell
Seeing
Know
Hindsight
Scientific
Always
Scientific Method
Go
Method
Traditional
Been
Testing
Very
Where
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
Saint Ambrose
Mind
Own
Ought
Our
Weak
Both
Wrong
Check
Clearly
Clergy
Another
Souls
Motions
Duties
Fulfilled
Fortitude
Even
Keep
Injury
Right
Disregard
Receiving
Christians
Third
Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
Sam Houston
Natural
Will
Country
Ought
No Country
Lift
Head
Advantages
Globe
Texas
Nations
Again
Stand
Compare
Among
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Samuel Richardson
People
Ought
Angels
Like
Deal
Act
Who
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil
Life
Friendship
Art
Great
Joy
Fault
Ought
Like
Joys
Afforded
Want
Gratuitous
I don't think you ought to walk into this country one day, and the first stop you make is the welfare office.
Sonny Perdue
Day
You
Welfare
Walk
First
Country
Think
Ought
One Day
Make
Office
Stop
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
Thomas Hood
Great
Men
Too
Ought
Great Men
Remind
Leave
Oft
May
Behind
Burn
Turn
Us
Pages
Letters
Lives
When I hear Donald Trump say the American military is a disaster, I want to go through the screen and shake the guy. We ought to have a commander in chief who talks about our troops with respect and gratitude.
Tim Kaine
Gratitude
Respect
Military
Ought
Our
Say
About
Shake
Guy
Troops
Through
Disaster
Talks
Go
Commander
Hear
Trump
Chief
American
Donald
Donald Trump
Screen
Want
American Military
Who
I'm old fashioned. I'm not one of these young guys who think they are so smart that they can prescribe what humanity ought to do. Humanity never learns any lessons. Prescriptions don't matter. We already know exactly what to do. We just don't do it.
Vaclav Smil
Humanity
Smart
Matter
Old
Young
Think
Ought
Exactly
Exactly What
Guys
Never
Know
Learns
Any
Just
Young Guys
Who
Old-Fashioned
Lessons
Prescribe
A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
Wayne Dyer
Government
People
Responsibility
Somebody
Else
Ought
Mad
Jobs
Mentality
Understand
Lot
Getting
Them
Why
Things
Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide.
William Godwin
Man
Law
Valuable
Made
Nation
Ought
Way
One-Way
Most
Sure
Decide
Wherever
Interests
Require
Should
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
William McKinley
Government
People
Free
Ought
Independent
Over
Cuba
Cuban
Turned
Should
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
William Penn
Love
Man
Wife
Nothing
Ought
Rule
Between
Without
His
Authority
Children
Sweetness
Servants
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom
Great
Glorious
Action
Ought
Pass
However
Effect
Itself
Intention
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Needs
Man
Constitution
Rich
Every
Ought
Consumer
He
Expensive
Producer
Every Man
One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
Adam Dell
Love
You
People
Responsibility
Think
Enough
Ought
Possible
One Of The Things
Would
About
Someone
Most
Making
Efficient
Owns
Social
Land
Use
Fortunate
Who
Social Responsibility
Things
I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.
Al Jarreau
Saying
Big
Band
Jazz
Ought
Project
Some
Trio
Songs
Almost
Big Band
Quartet
Been
Years
Either
Should
Need
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
Alan Lomax
Music
Saying
Me
Book
Ought
Back
Collected
Folk
Folk Music
See
Songs
He
Knew
Days
Come
Sing
Go
American
Dylan
Bobby
Next
Used
Village
Lived
I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.
Alberto Gonzales
Work
Time
Path
White
White House
Think
Ought
Release
Focusing
John
John Roberts
General
Counselor
Attorney
Attorney General
House
Roberts
Documents
His
Office
Working
Pages
Connection
Assistant
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Algernon Sidney
Best
Men
Nothing
Unknown
Ought
Divest
Perfect
Never
Wisest
Permanent
Passions
Affections
Which
Themselves
Many
Wholly
Things
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