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• I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Witty, Nice

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The press is our chief ideological weapon.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Media Control, Weapons, Call Of Duty

  Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”

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• My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Humble, Civil War

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• What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Men, Funeral

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Girl, Careers, People

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• With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

  Adam Smith

  Life, Success, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 11 (1776)

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• I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Boys, Order

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.21, UPNE

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• During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

  Patrick Stewart

  Bridges, Two, Different

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• The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Life Lesson, Men

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Pay, Vote

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.129, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Men, Deeds And Words

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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• The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Betrayal, People, Enemy

  "The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man".

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• It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Skills, Philosopher

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Hate, Heart, Love Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

  Chief Joseph

  Rivers, Mountain, Suits

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• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Be the chief but never the lord.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.460

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• Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Happiness, Joy

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• To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Travel, Vacation, Carpe Diem

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

  William Shenstone

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Life, Clever, Intelligent

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

  Sarah Fielding

  Errors, Confusion, Desire

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• The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

  Hippocrates

  Writing, Plain Language, Use

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• The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

  James A. Garfield

  Sunshine, Government, People

  "Garfield: A Biography". Book by Allen Peskin, 1978.

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