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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. Kingsley Amis | top
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon | top
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The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections. Fred Barnes | top
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. H. P. Blavatsky | top
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. William Ellery Channing | top
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus | top
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. Ulysses S. Grant | top
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And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian. Chris Hadfield | top
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. William Hazlitt | top
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Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. Richard Jefferson | top
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. William Samuel Johnson | top
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A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class. Marcy Kaptur | top
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. Charles Lamb | top
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. James Russell Lowell | top
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken | top
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Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation. Nelson A. Miles | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets. Jeffrey Skilling | top
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The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. John Strachan | top
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Be the chief but never the lord. Lao Tzu | top
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Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. William Vickrey | top
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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged. John Woolman | top
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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 | top
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They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. Cole Younger | top
