Chief Quotes
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
Jean Nicholas Grou
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
Hugh Blair
Subject: Exercise QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
Henry Louis Mencken
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
Henry Louis Mencken
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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They ...
Chief Joseph
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Bill Lovejoy
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Bill Lovejoy
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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P.J. O`Rourke
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Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civili...
Margaret Mead
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Dan Quayle
Subject: Politics QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell
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For seventeen years it was Mr. Mayer [MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer] who guided me, and I never turned down a picture that he personally asked me to do.
Robert Taylor
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I think 9/11 was the predominant overriding element. And I think that in the end, an awful lot of people were unwilling to switch commander-in-chief in midstream. And it just came down to, sort of, that perception. (Imus in the Morning, February 7, 2005 -...
John Kerry
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In Hawaii I was the chief chunker in a pineapple canning factory. I used to come home smelling like a compote.
Bette Midler
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In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint`s film, In the Line of Fire (1993), the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
Charlton Heston
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[on MGM chief Louis B. Mayer] Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.
Bob Hope
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eyes is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
Adam Smith
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When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.
Alice Cahn
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When I came back to Washington to be The Times` chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
Ahmad Zeidabady
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What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
Andrew Rudnick
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We were not at all solely relying on [information from] family members. The hospital spokeswoman was on my air live saying that she was told that the miners were coming to her hospital and ... they were alive. We had a local fire chief who was told that 1...
Rita Cosby
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We want the chief to be able to make good decisions. If the first 10 officers are all male whites and the chief says he needs more diversity, he should be able to pick another qualified officer from the list to represent this department and community.
Reggie Miller
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We want the chief to be able to make good decisions. If the first 10 officers are all male whites and the chief says he needs more diversity, he should be able to pick another qualified officer from the list to represent this department and community.
Reggie Miller
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We thank David for his contribution over the past three years and wish him a successful future. We are pleased that Allen has agreed to take on the additional responsibility. He has done a tremendous job over the past three years as our chief accounting o...
Art Ayre
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We must give our commander in chief and our military the capability to respond to these threats in some way other than retaliatory mass destruction.
Don Nickles
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We knew we would have to run in the 70s in order to be competitive, especially against Del in his CSK car. [Crew chief] Mark Oswald and the guys really got after it, and it was just a little too much.
Mike Ashley
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We danced the Chief`s Dance and blessed our artifacts. It was so powerful for me. We danced in our modern regalia in front of these magnificent ancient cedar capes and headdresses that would have done the same dance 200 years ago. I`ve done that dance hun...
Barb Anderson
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