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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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• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Greatness, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.136, University of Georgia Press

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• Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Health, Exercise, Air

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• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

  William Blake

  Life, Men, Soul

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Theatre, Truth Is, Proportion

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Peace, Home

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Mean, Breaking Silence

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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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• Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Exercise, Presidential, Voting

  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 ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

  Erich Fromm

  Fear, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.18, Lantern Books

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• Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Success, Inspiration, Singleness Of Purpose

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  Ralph Neas

  People, Justice, President

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• Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

  Alfred Marshall

  Differences, Degrees, Kind

  Alfred Marshall (1895). “Principles of Economics”

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• Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Mother, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Happiness, Joy

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• A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Success, Independence, Credit

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• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Office, Political, Training

  Eighth State of the Union Address, en.wikisource.org. 1876.

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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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• The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  America, Three, Coast

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.56, VM eBooks

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• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hate, Science, Men

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1943). “The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions”, p.444, Transaction Publishers

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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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