Chiefs Quotes

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The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. — Benjamin Graham
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the… — Martin Van Buren
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA. — Jack Higgins
Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping… — Gene Tunney
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The… — Bruce Catton
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that… — Giacomo Casanova
The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of… — Nigel Calder
If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that… — James Parton
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of… — Jane Porter
The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe only… — Georg Hermes
It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think. — Unknown Author
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of… — Eric Temple Bell
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as… — Bertrand Russell
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent… — Nancy Gibbs
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. — Jack Adams
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful… — Bergen Evans
Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as genuine… — Steve Almond
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering… — Igor Sikorsky

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