Chiefs Quotes - Page 36

• Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.

  Georg Hermes

  Prayer, Men, May

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• To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

  Mary Stewart

  Art, Garden, Plant

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• The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Father, Military

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• People who disagree with His Excellency, the President for Life and 'Chief of Chiefs,' are frequently found to be the victims of car crashes (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or dead in their beds of heart attacks (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets); or the recipients of some not-quite-fresh seafood (their bodies mysteriously riddled with bullets).

  Alexandra Fuller

  Heart, Car, People

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.215, Random House

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• The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mean, Enemy, Battle

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.443, Cambridge University Press

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• The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.

  Helen Foster Snow

  War, Artist, Government

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• Religion, which true policy befriends,
  Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends,
  Is by that old deceiver's subtle play
  Made the chief party in its own decay,
  And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast
  Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.

  Katherine Philips

  Party, Destiny, Men

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• Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Agriculture, People, Support

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• Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Youth, Should, Bases

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• After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

  William Benton Clulow

  Philosophy, Years, Two

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.413

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• Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade
  Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

  Thomas Davis

  Lying, Soldier, Fields

  1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

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• What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain recognized, even by such a conservative class as legal officials.

  Edward Jenks

  Class, Long, Facts

  "A Short History Of The English Law" by Edward Jenks.Fiirst edition, ch. V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 58., 1912.

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• Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Reading, Joy, Topics

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1977). “The hearthstone of my heart”, Doubleday Books

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• What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.

  Anacharsis Cloots

  Men, Enemy

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• Rabbi means teacher, and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

  Ephraim Mirvis

  Teacher, Mean, Roles

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• I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

  Ephraim Mirvis

  Next, Rabbi, Feels

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• I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Philosophy, Government, People

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Causes, Morality, Misery

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

  Gwen Raverat

  Education, Lying, School

  Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.72, Clear Press Ltd

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• One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life is to be feeding, clothing and educating the young. However, their really important ministry is to listen to their children and enable them to uncover the special blueprint that is theirs.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Children, Parent, Special

  Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

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• When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the Duce had not been so sure about the invincibility of the Germans, and he told us that he had sought to persuade Hitler not to act.

  Pietro Badoglio

  War, Army, August

  "Twenty Angels Over Rome: The Story of Fascist Italy's Fall" by Richard McMillan, (p. 70), 1945.

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• The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

  Richard Sharp

  Lying, Long, Secret

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• Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

  Ruth Glick

  Book, Self, Way

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• Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.

  James Hollis

  Mean, Forever, Desire

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.75, Penguin

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• He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Wind

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.254

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