Chief Quotes

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Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only… — Margaret Mead
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which… — Ronald Fisher
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour… — Thomas Huxley
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and… — James A. Garfield
Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies. — Eric Holder
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without,… — Johann Georg Hamann
As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on… — Kathryn Minshew
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. — George Washington
Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out… — Colin Powell
Feminism â€¦ I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms.… — Napoleon Hill
Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never… — Rudyard Kipling
If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in… — Joe Kyrillos
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies… — J. Irwin Miller
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form, to devise effective… — Paul Strand
I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to… — Jim Edgar
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has… — B. H. Liddell Hart

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