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And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.
People regularly misinterpret what I say, the question is whether that's something I ought to worry about or not!
Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'
Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.
Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.
Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.
We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.
I'm a firm believer that if you are not on the team, you ought not have input on who the quarterback is going to be.
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning
If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.