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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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  I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

  Geronimo

  Honor, Apaches, Express Yourself

  Geronimo (2012). “Geronimo: My Life”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  J. Paul Getty

  Book, Reading, Age

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

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Happiness, Joy

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

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Humble, Civil War

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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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• 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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• Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Girl, Growing Up, Women

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• Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

  Curt Weldon

  Military, Cells, Secret

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• I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

  Howard Hawks

  Movie, Inspiring, Moving

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

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• When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

  George Crook

  Doe, Care, Secure

  George Crook (1986). “General George Crook: His Autobiography”, p.229, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

  Martin Van Buren

  Genius, World, Firsts

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