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Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together. — Hugh Walpole
New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the… — Henry Ford
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it. — Cheikh Anta Diop
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society;… — Russell Kirk
You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body. — Plato
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise. — Charles Spurgeon
We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever… — Pope Francis
Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have… — John Keble
The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the… — Helmut Thielicke
We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking. — Pope Francis
The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were… — Winston Churchill
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. — Dwight L. Moody
Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone. — Miguel de Unamuno
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts,… — George Washington
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as… — Sean O'Casey
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. — B. C. Forbes
After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true. — William Feather
You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it… — Unknown Author
Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship. — Unknown Author
During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they… — Thomas Jefferson
The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes. — Swami Vivekananda
He who shares the danger ought to share the prize. — Aesop
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The… — Samuel Johnson

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