quotes about Ought
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We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.
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You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.
-- Andy DalySource : "A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
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You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.
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Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.
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Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.
-- Dorothy RichardsonSource : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
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Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
-- Roger WilliamsSource : "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience". Book by Roger Williams. "Address to Parliament", 1644.
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Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.
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We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.
-- Stephen BaxterSource : Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.57, Random House
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The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
-- John DenhamSource : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.114
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The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.
-- John Hookham Frere