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• I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White Man, Authority

  North American Review, Apr. 1879

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• Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Errors, Long

  1905 Heretics, ch.13.

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• Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

  Richard Jefferson

  People, Firsts, Chief Executives

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• Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Heart, Blood

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• We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Increase, Used

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.71, Vanderbilt University Press

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• The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

  Whittaker Chambers

  War, Fruit, Firsts

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

  Wallace Stevens

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Assets

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.258, Vintage

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• Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, President, Association

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• The chief business of the American people is business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, People, Prospering

  Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors,Washington, D.C., 17 Jan. 1925.

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• A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

  Jack Adams

  Class, Yeoman, Firsts

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• The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Cities, Police, Firsts

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• The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Intelligent, Intellect

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

  James Wolfe

  Air, British Soldiers, Troops

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• I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fitness, Reason Why, Busy

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences”

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• But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

  Don Nickles

  Responsibility, Government, Defense

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• We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Art, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.356, Psychology Press

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  I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

  Aleister Crowley

  Believe, Devil, Ordinary

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 5, 1969.

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• The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Creativity, Cities

  "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.

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• A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

  Kate Millett

  Revolution, Oppression, Victim

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• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Religion, Occupation

  Prejudices (1926).

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• The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Secret, Benefits

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.167

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• Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

  Hu Shih

  People, Chinese, Confucianism

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• As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

  Christopher Bond

  Years, Vermont, Kind

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• Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

  Andre Breton

  Wise, Art, Nature

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• Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

  Kingsley Amis

  Laziness, Journalism, Incompetence

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

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