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The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit. — J. Arthur Thomson
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The principal hindrance to the advancement of the kingdom of God is greed. It is the chief obstacle to heaven-sent revival. It seems that when… — O. S. Hawkins
To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief… — James Hunter
FAITH Coming unto God, I believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him: I know that my… — Lancelot Andrewes
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means… — Henry David Thoreau
As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad… — Abraham Lincoln
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For… — Ambrose Bierce
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which. — Charles Francis Richter
The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I… — Lindsey Graham
Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire. — Rudy Giuliani
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times;… — Thomas de Quincey
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans,… — James A. Michener
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world. — Jean-Paul Sartre
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. — Winston Churchill
In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve. — Winston Churchill
The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self… — Eric Hoffer
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a… — Eric Hoffer

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