Chief Quotes

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[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which… — Leo Tolstoy
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief. — William Shakespeare
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along. — James J. Kilpatrick
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out… — Alexander Alekhine
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli
How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as… — John Andreas Widtsoe
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery
Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the… — David Rockefeller
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one. — Ralph Raico
The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no… — Herbert Spencer
Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had… — David Icke
...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively… — James Hansen
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. — Christopher Dawson
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is the CreatorÂ´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess manÂ´s chiefest pet name for… — Mark Twain
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men. — Reinhold Niebuhr
What is the chief end of giving? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever. — Dennis Bakke
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a… — Robert Peston

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