"People regularly misinterpret what I say, the question is whether that's something I ought to worry about or not!"
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"You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to."
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"The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be."
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"For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them."
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"For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be."
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"I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new."
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"All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own."
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"Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education."
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