#ought

Love gives itself; it is not bought. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#degree #freedom #freedom from #gauge #measures

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world. ↗

— Daniel Mainwaring

#everything #everything people #guess #hear #i

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#flowers #i #i love #language #love

Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#adverse conditions #agriculture #been #conditions #continuing

I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life. ↗

— Barbara McClintock

#better life #hated #having #i #imagine

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. ↗

— David McCullough

#art #being #civic #enlargement #experience

When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to manifest your dream life! ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us. ↗

— Larry Miller

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