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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Beauty, Truth

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Forget, Fate, Interest

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

Great, Long, Small

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Mind, Event

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Someone, Inspire

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
John F. Kennedy

Nice, Ring, Hail

Be the chief but never the lord.
Lao Tzu

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
Marilyn Monroe

Great, Trying, Find

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost

Life, School, Book

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

Health, Care, Country

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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler

Life, May, Danger

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Trouble, Seriously

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, Everyone, Aim

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison

Brain, Around, Body

The press is our chief ideological weapon.
Nikita Khrushchev

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Good, Enemy, Creativity

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken

Money, Fact, Lives

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

Education, Freedom, Thought

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken

True, Mankind, Occupation

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken

God, Human, Thought

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Says, Beaten

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm

Power, Danger, Mankind

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Water, Air, Pharmacy

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

Him, Become, Sense

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell

Age, Live, Philosophy

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Work, Great, Heart

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P. J. O'Rourke

Women, Number, Among

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud

Love, Peace, Good

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
Hillary Clinton

Father, Football, Times

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci

Truth, Superior, Intellects

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