Chief Quotes
993 quotes by 745 authors
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Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as…
— William Dampier
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
— Daniel Dennett
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I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must…
— Chief Joseph
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The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives…
— Martin Luther
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That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the…
— Thomas Paine
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The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
— John Stott
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The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.
— Hilary of Poitiers
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The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual…
— Barack Obama
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
— Hippocrates
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One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of…
— Henry Edward Manning
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Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.
— Leo Steinberg
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A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change,
— Richard Rorty
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Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
— Richard Jefferson
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There is no sign, not one sign, that the Iraqi regime has any intent to comply fully with the terms of Resolution 1441, just as…
— Richard Armitage
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
— T. Boone Pickens
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In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum. Chromium. Manganese. Iron. Nickel. Cobalt. and Copper and part of the Silver…
— Henry Moseley
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Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
— Thurgood Marshall
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And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I've been deeply concerned that to date no individuals have been convicted for the brutal killing of three United States citizens, the Bytyqi brothers: Agron,…
— Eliot Engel
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Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command,…
— Garry Robbins
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