Chiefs Quotes

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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human… — Eric Hoffer
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. — Wilhelm Wundt
The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem… — Michael O'Leary
Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee… — William Cowper
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. — George Eliot
I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from Washington without my… — John F. Kennedy
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF… — Robert Baden-Powell
Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case… — Robert Baden-Powell
If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in… — James Bovard
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's… — James Wolfe
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate… — Adam Weishaupt
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects… — Joseph Sobran
The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life. — Lane Kirkland
Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that GodÂ infuses joy and resilience… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. — Ramana Maharshi
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their… — William Henry Ashley
I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace,… — Black Kettle
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy… — Adam Clymer
Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. — William Cowper

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