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• There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Simple, Suffering, Three

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• The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Christian, Mind, Rosary

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• What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

  Edward Carpenter

  Joy, Coaching, Elements

  Edward Carpenter (1905). “Prisons, Police and Punishment: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Treatment of Crime and Criminals”

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• People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

  Edgar Degas

  Girl, Lying, Clothes

  Edgar Degas, Russell Ash (1992). “Degas' Ballet Dancers”, Universe Pub

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• At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Risk, Faults

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• Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

  Hermann Hankel

  Flower, Eye, Discovery

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• The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Oakland, Chicago, Looks

  "Lupe Fiasco Retires? Rapper Says He’s Done After Chief Keef Attacks Him On Twitter" By Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christ, Made, Companion

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• One of our chief needs as creative beings is support.  Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by.  Ideally, we would be nurtured and encourages first by our nuclear family and then by ever-widening circles of friends, teachers, well-wishers.  As young artists, we need and want to be acknowledged for our attempts and efforts as well as for our achievements and triumphs.  Unfortunately, many artists never receive this critical early encouragement.  As a result, they may not know they are artists at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Teacher, Encouragement, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.45, Souvenir Press

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• The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.

  James Montgomery Boice

  Thinking, Connections, Watches

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• The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

  John Stott

  Christian, Hazards, Discouragement

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• I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Years, Drug

  "Mark Ronson: 'Jay-Z is teaching me to play Wonderwall'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.

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• And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Decision, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Paris, Danger

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922”, p.537, Faber & Faber

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• The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  War, Air, Spirit

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.107, Pen and Sword

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• The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Century, Twentieth Century

  "Logic, methodology and philosophy of science: Proceedings" by Patrick Suppes, 1973.

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• Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Heaven, Treasure

  "Man: The Dwelling Place of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1966.

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• He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Exercise, United States

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

  Germaine Greer

  Couple, Real, Struggle

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

  Jan Neruda

  Men, Pigs, Two

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• Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wealth, Justified, Ends

  "The Resonant Words, and Wisdom, of 'Silent Cal'" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 07, 2015.

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• If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

  Bob Riley

  Fire, House, Needs

  "Obama Draws Bipartisan Criticism for Using Oil Spill to Push Energy Policy". www.foxnews.com. June 16, 2010.

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• The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

  Christian D. Larson

  Giving Up, Trying, Tasks

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.365, Penguin

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• There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

  James Burnham

  Class, Liberty, Groups

  "The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham, (p. 280), 1987.

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