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• I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, Years, Drug

  "Mark Ronson: 'Jay-Z is teaching me to play Wonderwall'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.

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• The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

  Hannah Arendt

  Death, War, Simple

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

  T. S. Eliot

  Strong, Paris, Danger

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922”, p.537, Faber & Faber

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• The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  War, Air, Spirit

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.107, Pen and Sword

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• The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Century, Twentieth Century

  "Logic, methodology and philosophy of science: Proceedings" by Patrick Suppes, 1973.

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• Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Heaven, Treasure

  "Man: The Dwelling Place of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1966.

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• He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Exercise, United States

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

  Germaine Greer

  Couple, Real, Struggle

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.

  Jan Neruda

  Men, Pigs, Two

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• Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wealth, Justified, Ends

  "The Resonant Words, and Wisdom, of 'Silent Cal'" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 07, 2015.

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• I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.

  Ninian Smart

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Race, Land

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• The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Mean, Men

  Jay Patrick Green, Sr., John Charles Ryle (2002). “Why Read the Bible Through & How Readest Thou?”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Destiny, All Things, Universal

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the field concerned, and all pointing attention to his power to deal in the spiritual field with human souls as these mortal counterparts deal in their temporal pursuits.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Spiritual, Technology, Soul

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• Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

  Edward F. Hennessey

  Issues, Organization, Example

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• Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they don't know how to do their jobs. "I don't know how to sell this," they explain, frowning, as though it's your fault. "I don't know how to package this. I don't know what the market is for this book. I don't know how we're going to draw attention to this." In most occupations, people try to hide their incompetence; only in publishing is it flaunted as though it were the chief qualification for the job.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

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• The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.65

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• [D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Hands

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy”

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• Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Joy, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

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• The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Differences, Numbers

  James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Careers, Letters

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.161, Vintage

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• I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

  Alexander Alekhine

  New York, Believe, Victory

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• The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Government, Law, Foundation

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.47, FastPencil Inc

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• How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as a gift to God, whose chief concern is the welfare of his children. Every gentle deed to our neighbor, every kindness to the poor and suffering, is a gift to the Lord, before whom all mankind are equal. Every conformity to the Lord's plan of salvation-and this is of first importance-is a direct gift to God, for thereby we fit ourselves more nearly for our divinely planned destiny.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Kindness, Destiny

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