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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Subject: Life QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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I read no newspaper now but Ritchie`s, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
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[on how he was cast as the monster in "The Curse of Frankenstein"] I was asked to play the creature chiefly because of my size and height which had effectively kept me out of many pictures I might have appeared in during the preceding ten years. Most Brit...
Christopher Lee
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When one cannot appraise out of one`s own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Alyssa Fressle
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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.
Allan Keller
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The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
John Moody
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Attorney General Pat Crank
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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Alex Kipp
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Andy Goodenow
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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
Amy Wyatt
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It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.
Allison Baker
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Alyce Robertson
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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Andray Blatche
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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks...
Howard Nemerov
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Barbara Ferraro
Subject: Patience QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
Andrew McCormick
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from vir...
Socrates
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Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitf...
Abdoulaye Sarr
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
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It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
Abby Smith
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[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.
Aharon Barak
Subject: Boredom QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
