"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral."
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"You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it."
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"A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it."
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"Leaders should be the chief repenters."
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"Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration."
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"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again."
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"Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life."
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"I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in."
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"The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import)."
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"A chief does not hurry."
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"My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends."
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"Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing."
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"The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress."
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"Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort"
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"The chief danger to philosophy is narrowness in the selection of evidence."
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"Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias."
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"The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life."
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"As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for."
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"To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province."
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"Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives."
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