Chiefly Quotes

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If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity. — John Dalton
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds… — Plotinus
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things;… — Lascelles Abercrombie
Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them… — Charlotte Mason
What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is… — Walter Karp
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather… — Francis Quarles
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. — John Buchanan Robinson
It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little… — Fred Brooks
In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go… — John T. Flynn
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that… — Anthony Storr
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual… — Ben Hecht
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants. — Saint Augustine
Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy â€” not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here… — Thomas Chalmers
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one. — Aristotle
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show,… — Adam Weishaupt
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation. — Nelson A. Miles
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as… — Marianne Moore
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the… — Walter Russell Bowie
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — H. L. Mencken
Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though… — Martin Farquhar Tupper

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