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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. — Florence Nightingale
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the… — Ron Paul
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better. — Pablo Picasso
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they… — Samuel Richardson
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain… — Herbert Simon
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always… — Alan Watts
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. — Evelyn Waugh
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die.… — H.G. Wells
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most… — Adam Smith
I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If… — George Carlin
For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making… — R.D. Blackmore
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of… — Erich Maria Remarque
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the… — Rebecca West
People were standing up everywhere shouting, "This is me! This is me!" Every time you looked at them they stood up and told you who… — Philip Roth
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and… — Edmund Burke
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate. — Edmund Burke
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and… — Jane Austen
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to… — Daniel Defoe
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of… — C.S. Lewis
He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be,… — E. M. Forster
I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,… — Susan Sontag
It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think… — Kristina McMorris

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