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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reality, Whatever, Until

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

Forget, Saying, Two

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

Struggle, May, Support

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Free, Press

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome

Friendship, True, Thinks

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Wisdom, Done

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe

Girl, Worry, She

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Heart, Control, Head

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rich, Needs, Consumer

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

Down, Written, Remain

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

Prayer, Lord, Rest

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates

Evil, Him, Injustice

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
Marilyn Monroe

Money, Best, Give

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 purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
Ron Paul

Life, Work, Government

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers

Open, Season, Senators

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Best, Calm, Pursuit

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Knowledge, Wisdom, Justice

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Feelings, Words, Themselves

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Honore de Balzac

Love, May, Reveal

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

Fool, Sleep, Small

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

Good, Temper, Virtue

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood

Love, Snow, Important

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates

Enough, Anybody

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar

Business, Complain, Excited

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams

Trust, Men, Power

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II

Freedom, Consists

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

Experience, Real, Pride

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato

Study, Memory, Slavery

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