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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty
Ages
Books
Chief
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I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Always busy
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.
Nikola Tesla
Before
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Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.
Katy Perry
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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Another
Become
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Mischief
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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 appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore
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The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.
Marie Antoinette
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It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.
Rollo May
Basis
Century
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Chief
Concern
Him
Himself
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The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the results of analysis in our minds.
James Clerk Maxwell
Mathematical difficulties
Theory
Rotation
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The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.
James Clerk Maxwell
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Physics
Mind
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
Woman
Define
Feelings
Language
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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
Thucydides
Self control
Chief element
Self respect
Courage
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We pray that MKO's beloved wife, Alhaja Kudirat, and other patriots whose blood water the field of democracy that we now enjoy, find peace with their Creator. May the soul of Chief MKO Abiola continue to rest in perfect peace. Amen!
Dapo Abiodun
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Beloved wife
Other patriots
Blood water
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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Aleister Crowley
Content
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Serve him
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
Chief danger
Life
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When you see a man selling handkerchiefs and still sweating profusely in traffic, it tells you that possession is not the same as ownership!
Kenneth Okonkwo
You see
Man
Selling handkerchiefs
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Our democracy is founded on rule of law and when our Chief Law Officer violates the law of his own party by participating in the illegal dissolution and swearing-in of a body not known to the constitution of the party then our nation is in trouble.
Osita Chidoka
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Founded
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In action
Great heart
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In work
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Hope is a species of happiness and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Hope
Happiness
World affords
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One must speak little. In action one must say nothing. The chief is the one who does not speak.
Charles de Gaulle
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Speak
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Say
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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Luxury
Life
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Don Marquis
Chief obstacle
The progress
Human race
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
Point
Happiness
Man
Willing
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Many times when we were young, and were caught in mischief, we would snitch on others.
Faridah Nakazibwe
Many times
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To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Sarah Palin
To win
This war
A commander
A professor
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Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.
Sai Baba of Shirdi
Pure love
Chief manifestation
Education
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Writing is a form of mischief.
Stephen Sondheim
Writing
Form
Mischief
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
William Golding
Trouble
Chief
Think
Wise
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
Epicurus
Noble man
Wisdom
Friendship
Mortal
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Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.
Ernest Holmes
Gratitude
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Human
Unity
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil
Jeremy Bentham
Punishment
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Evil
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
John Calvin
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own
John Maynard Keynes
Nothing
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The chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water—are the Bible and prayer—the Word of grace and the Throne of grace.
John Newton
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Word
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The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
John Webster
Action
Man
Sprit
Soul
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
Jonathan Edwards
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Souls
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
Jonathan Edwards
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God
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Christian
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Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mischief
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People's
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I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
Mary Oliver
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