#ought

The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#any #arms #arms race #before #brought

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#expect #gratitude #none #ought #paid

Whatever ought to be, can be. ↗

— James Rouse

#ought #whatever

Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record. ↗

— David Rudisha

#already #body #break #coming #future

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#commissioner #could #deal #given #great

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#apparently #called #come #company #how

That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#better #better off #boats #does #fences

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#carry #experiments #fiction #lets #nice

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't "sail" anyway. Send it back for further thought. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#american people #anyway #approach #back #been

Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#am #audience #back #bandwidth #behind