Quotes with commander-in-chief

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  • Abba Eban One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Chief Seattle Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Stuart Mill That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John Stuart Mill The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Ba Jin The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Wes Smith The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.
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  • Eric Sevareid The chief cause of problems is solutions.
    Eric Sevareid
    American journalist (1912 - 1992)
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  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
    Pierre Joseph Proudhon
    French sociologist and economist (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alfred Adler The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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