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Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit
William Temple, Sr.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Publilius Syrus
Subject: Desire QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
Mark Rutherford
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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today
Mahatma Gandhi
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
C. E. Stowe
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We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust"; Because, as a nation, we`ve got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
Art Hoppe
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen
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I am only one, but I am one. I can`t do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.
Edward Everett Hale
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man`s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
Thomas Jefferson
Subject: Inventions QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Asking `who ought to be the boss` is like asking `who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?` Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
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Asking `who ought to be the boss` is like asking `who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?` Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle
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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception
Mark Twain
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler
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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country
C.S. Lewis
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn`t any.
Marilyn Monroe
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had le...
Adrien Wing
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The trouble with censors is they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn`t any.
Marilyn Monroe
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I t`ought I taw a putty-tat!
Mel Blanc
