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• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Knowing

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• What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects the wealth they produce. Last September (2001) a handful of fanatics, armed only with box-cutters, provided a new rationale for the trillion -dollar swindle. A bonanza! I don't know what these 'terrorists' thought they were achieving: Making the infidel respect Allah? If so, they were wrong. You might as well try to make the U.S. government respect the U.S. Constitution.

  Joseph Sobran

  Blessing, Reality, Government

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• The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

  Lane Kirkland

  Real, Political, Special

  "Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement". Book by Arthur B. Shostak, p. 190, 1991.

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• Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Gratitude, Jobs, Struggle

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• Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Mind, Body

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• Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

  William Cowper

  Weed, Sex, Joy

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.163

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• I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I sacrifice more to my principles than any other officer in the Army can do. I would rather carry a musket in the cause of the South than be commander-in-chief under Mr. Lincoln.

  Edmund Kirby Smith

  War, Army, Sacrifice

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• The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Kings, Fighting, Hands

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• At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Heart, Good Business, Chief Executives

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• The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Inspiration, Differences

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• The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.

  Lotus Coffman

  Army, People, Support

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• The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and very seldom use the spurs. So it was with our chief [William Rehnquist]. He guided us with loose reins and used the spurs only rarely to get us up to speed with our work.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Leadership, Horse, Women

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• It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

  Herbert Hoover

  Office, House, Leader

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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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 Grou

  Reality, Suffering, Trials

  Jean Nicolas Grou (1881). “The hidden life of the soul [by J.N. Grou]. From the Fr. by the author of A Dominican artist. From the Fr. of J.N. Grou, ed. by W.H. Hutchings”

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• Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

  Eric Gill

  Writing, Character, Men

  Eric Gill, Christopher Skelton (1993). “An Essay on Typography”, p.121, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

  Helen Keller

  Failing, Globalization, Militarism

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• Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  Larry Gelbart

  Funny, Witty, Divorce

  "Fictional character: Maj. Frank Burns". TV Series "M*A*S*H", 1972-1983.

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• The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Sex, Men

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• The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Judgement, Mind

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• Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.

  Fred Reinfeld

  Causes, Chess, Losing

  Fred Reinfeld (1961). “Great Short Games of the Chess Masters”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Profound, Causes

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  War, Let It Go, Progress

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

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• Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.

  Paul Hellyer

  Country, War, Mean

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• The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

  Ted Rall

  Hero, Fighting, Iraq

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• We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

  Ralph Caplan

  Substance, Proud, Way

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