Chiefs Quotes - Page 26

• The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Speak, Should, Thoughts And Words

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

  John B

  Learning, Science, Men

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• The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Self, President

  Boston Globe, December 20, 2007.

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• One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of Acts, when Saul the persecutor was converted by a special miracle, the sign given of his conversion was this: "Behold he prayeth." Prayer is the breath of the soul. Just as breathing is the sign of life, prayer is the sign of the life of the soul.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Christian, Prayer, Book

  "Sin and Its Consequences".

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• Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Lying, Effectiveness

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• A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.

  Richard Rorty

  Arguing, Talent, Instruments

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• There is no sign, not one sign, that the Iraqi regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of Resolution 1441, just as it has failed to comply with previous U.N. Security Council resolutions. The international community gave Iraq one final opportunity to disarm peacefully, and that opportunity has run its course. Dr. Blix [Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector] told us on Monday that there has been no progress toward credible, verifiable disarmament.

  Richard Armitage

  Running, Monday, Opportunity

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• In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part of the Silver spectrum. The chief result is that all the elements give the same kind of spectrum, the result for any metal being quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shows that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Iron, Giving

  "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 209), 1974.

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• Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

  Thurgood Marshall

  Baby, Justice, Burgers

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• And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

  Peter Ackroyd

  Smell, Clothes, Creating

  1987 Chatterton, ch.5.

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• I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the Bytyqi brothers: Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet.... It's a long time ago, we want to move on, but eleven years after the discovery of their bodies no one has been held accountable for their killing and the chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  Eliot Engel

  Brother, Moving, Discovery

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• Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.

  Garry Robbins

  Discovery, Years, Body

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• The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

  Aristotle

  Science, Engineering, Order

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.202, Roger Bishop Jones

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• In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Government, Law, Divine Right

  Leo Tolstoy, M. K. Gandhi (2016). “A LETTER TO A HINDU (A Fascinating View on Love and Non-Violence): Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby”, p.31, e-artnow

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• When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.

  Francis M. Lyman

  Brother, Rewards, Labor

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• I wasnt privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Cities, Guatemala, Traffic

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• I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a woman, although we are unlike in many things. We can not be made over again. You are as you were made, and as you were made you can remain. We are just as we were made by the Great Spirit, and you can not change us ; then why should children of one mother and one father quarrel ? — why should one try to cheat the other ? I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

  Freeman Tilden

  Instruction, Interpretation, Aim

  Freeman Tilden (2009). “Interpreting Our Heritage”, p.59, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fear, Church Bells, Wind

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1998). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Purpose, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.225, Graphic Arts Books

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• The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Running, Order

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  World, Taxes, Trifles

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1742, e-artnow

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• Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

  John Betjeman

  Country, Topography, Fear Of Death

  Radio Talk on BBC Third Programme, 1949.

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• No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a passing whim (if it had been the hard work would have dispelled it in a very short time!). I think there were three chief reasons for my choice of career: First, a real love for, and interest in aviation Secondly, a determination to earn my own money and to make my career a paying proposition. Thirdly, a conviction that aviation was a profession of the future and therefore had room to welcome its new followers.

  Pauline Gower

  Determination, Women, Real

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• When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Government, Order

  Response to the Frost-Nixon interviews on the Watergate scandal, UPI, May 21, 1977.

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