Chief Quotes

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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
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. — Grover Cleveland
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was… — Hillary Clinton
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our… — Red Cloud
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nonetheless, GAO's conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO's own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report. ...here… — Alan K. Simpson
Hail to the chief in triumph advances. — Walter Scott
All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of… — Ludwig von Mises
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim. — William Shenstone
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought. — Woody Allen
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That… — Edith Wharton
Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. — Hannah Arendt
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the… — Albert Einstein
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief… — Doris Lessing
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with… — Lewis Mumford
Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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