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It is heart-wrenching to see a country blessed with abundant resources and highly intelligent people not scratching the surface of its true potential. Let me reiterate that as young Nigerians we ought to know our worth, know our strength and know our power.
Shina Peller
Country
Nigerian
Highly intelligent
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There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age?
Warren Buffet
Mind
Sex
Saving
Resume
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
Aeschylus
Time
Fear
Remain
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You think slavery is right and should be extended; while we think slavery is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.
Abraham Lincoln
Think
Wrong
Between
While
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Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.
Alexander the Great
Skill
Bear
May
Not
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
Equal
Life
Harm
Health
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato
State
Person
Ought
Good
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
Pablo Picasso
Chaste
Ignorant
Dangerous
Forbidden
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge
Criticize
Obvious
Problem
Care
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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry Ford
Dream
Ought
Think
Night
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Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler
Anyone
Blue
Fields
Green
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James
Awake
Compared
Half
Ought
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott
Side
Bolt
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As a Christian, you ought to be less concerned about where God is bringing you out from, rather, focus on where He's taking you to.
Chris Oyakhilome
Ought
Rather
Christian
Concern
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers
Day
Just
Open
Ought
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
Ibrahim Babangida
Complex
Foundation
Freedom
Lay
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
Ogden Nash
Biting
Feed
Ought
Remorse
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris
Asking
Democracy
Only
Ought
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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
Henry Van Dyke
Heart
Listening
Necessary
Never
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Orson Welles
Ought
Say
Misbehave
We
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
Florence Nightingale
Be Careful
Better
Careful
Day
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A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates
Benefit
Blessings
Consider
Derive
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I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.
Quentin Bryce
Ability
Australians
Day
Education
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei
Begin
Demonstrations
Discussion
Experiments
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
Barbara Jordan
Balance
Belief
Between
Everything
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke
Country
Love
Lovely
Make
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Thomas Jefferson
Ever
Free
Government
No-One
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Thomas Aquinas
Believe
Desire
He
Know
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Thomas Aquinas
Certain
Circumstances
Confronting
Does
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Thomas Paine
Hereditary
Ought
Planning
Posterity
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
Victoria Beckham
Compulsory
I Love
Love
Made
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Langston Hughes
Got
Humor
Laughing
Ought
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot
Bad
Conscious
He
Ought
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I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Diogenes
Gods
Know
Ought
Whether
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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
Calculate
Cure
Discard
Error
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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.
Affects
Directly
Ought
Reality
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Vincent van Gogh
Brought
Done
Great
Series
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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no
Rachel Carson
Chemicals
Life
Nature
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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage. He could not physically re-enter the ocean as the seals and whales had done. But over the centuries, with all the skill and ingenuity and reasoning powers of his mind, he has sought to explore and investigate even its most remote parts, so that he might re-enter it mentally and imaginatively.
Rachel Carson
Ocean
Sea
Water
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Rainer Maria Rilke
About
Course
Grown
Know
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
Elon Musk
Africa
Because
Born
Brought
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot
Brought
Done
Great
Great Things
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Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?
Elizabeth Warren
About
American
Ask
Documentation
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson
Argument
Brought
Evidently
Evil
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
Good
He
Him
Inclination
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When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
Richard M. Nixon
Boxes
Burned
Evenings
Fireplace
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Emily Bronte
Am
Company
Country
Cured
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing
Assume
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False
Feel
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
Wale
Ambition
Attractive
Beautiful
Common
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
Marilyn Monroe
Any
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Girl
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