Chiefs Quotes - Page 30

• Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.

  Joseph Hall

  Adversity, Weather, Numbers

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• It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Teamwork, Animal, Men

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• Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Evil, Causes

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• Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as the justices' presiding officer, .. The contrast between Rehnquist's undeniably happy Court and that of his predecessor, Warren E. Burger, could not have been greater.

  David Garrow

  Successful, Justice, Evaluation

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• The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Enemy, Jerusalem, Christ

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• I don't mean to sugarcoat the figure on restatements, but I think it is positive - it shows a healthy system. The general impression of the public is that accounting rules are black and white. They are often anything but that, and in many instances the changes in earnings came after new interpretations by the chief accountant of the SEC.

  Steve Odland

  Mean, Black And White, Thinking

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• A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Women, Equality, Gentleman

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• When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

  Ben Okri

  Eras, Deities, Chaos

  Ben Okri (2015). “Stars Of The New Curfew”, p.71, Random House

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• Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Power, Humanity, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Brave, Victory

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• I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

  Jim Thorpe

  Athlete, Warrior, Careers

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• The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Unity, Disappear

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• A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Faults, Reason, Instruments

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• What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1972). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.97, Zondervan

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• All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?

  Dave Barry

  Wall, Humorous, Rain

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• What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, University of Georgia Press

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• At the end of the day, I think I understand the dynamic that we face. And I'm best prepared to be commander in chief on day one, with all due respect to my other colleagues, including Hillary Clinton.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Faces

  "Sen. Lindsey Graham on fighting Islamic State, shoring up Social Security". www.pbs.org. June 4, 2015.

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• I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

  Bear Grylls

  Safety, Policy, Health And Safety

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me.

  Danny Brown

  Littles, Mixtapes, Scared

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Differences, Doe

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.397, Knopf

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• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Two, Connections

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, Machines, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Indian Home Rule”, p.87, The Floating Press

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• John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Husband, Crazy, White

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• Newcastle need a chief scout who is in unicism with the management

  Bobby Gould

  Needs, Management, Newcastle

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• America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.

  Liz Cheney

  America, Community, Needs

  "Liz Cheney Slams Obama On Foreign Policy: 'America Needs A Commander In Chief, Not A Global Community Organizer'". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2009.

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