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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield
Government
Peace
People
Sunshine
Duty
Out
Chief
Stand
Keep
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy
God
Words
Men
Approbation
Only
Between
Always
Chief
Intended
Done
Difference
Deeds
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
Our
Hesitation
Philosophy
Those
Study
Perhaps
Without
How
Chief
Being
Teach
Certainty
Who
Thing
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
Charlton Heston
Government
CIA
Fire
President
Bad
Bad Guy
Guy
Main
Advisor
Line
Years
Clint
Chief
Anyone
Again
Certainly
Film
Recent
Recent Years
Recently
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates
Words
Language
Nothing
Virtue
Clearness
Chief
Unfamiliar
Much
Use
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith
People
Rich
Consists
Parade
Part
Greater
Chief
Rich People
Riches
Enjoyment
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
Chief Joseph
Great
Made
Men
Brothers
Spirit
Great Spirit
Were
Chief
A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
Chief Joseph
Great
Lawyer
Country
Took
Sold
Council
Lead
He
Talker
Because
Chief
Nearly
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
Dalton Trumbo
Trust
People
Enemies
State
Those
Betray
Imposed
Chief
Officials
Any
Public
Them
Public Officials
Internal
Who
By The People
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
Elie Wiesel
Army
First
Liberation
Moses
Perhaps
Greatest
Commander
Chief
Legislator
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
Life
Success
Wisdom
Matter
Aim
Purpose
Chief
May
Essentials
The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.
Nigel Hamilton
War
Adversity
Great
History
Overcome
Heroic
President
Our
Facing
Take
Had
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
Polio
Greatest
Commander
Chief
Behalf
Human
Story
Human History
Who
Reins
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
Sitting Bull
Great
Will
Spirit
Great Spirit
Am
His
Chief
Here
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott
Education
Worth
Men
Own
Out
Had
Hand
Chief
Anything
Turned
Who
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life
Day
Mind
Encountered
Chief
Which
Us
Event
Startled
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Charles Eastman
Family
Natural
Nothing
Several
Tribe
Clan
More
Head
Voluntary
Chief
Than
Patriarchal
Union
Connection
Larger
I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.
Dilip Kumar
Politics
You
People
Personality
Men
Seen
Become
Own
Egotistical
Politicians
Think
Correction
Eye
Must
Ministers
Oblivion
Prime
Prime Ministers
Like
Look
Became
Pass
How
Chief
Pathetic
Essential
Then
Successful
Should
Who
Businessmen
Keep
Necessary
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard
Home
Peace
Benefit
Say
Dream
Dreamer
Name
House
Protects
Shelters
Were
Chief
Asked
Should
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland
Politics
Trust
Every
Magistrate
Voter
Exercises
Surely
Chief
Public
Your
Public Trust
Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
Jack Paar
Life
Me
My Life
Long
Looking
Looking Back
Back
Seems
Obstacle
Like
Chief
Race
What matters is voting for where you live: Who's your mayor, who's your police chief, who represents you, your city council, your judges. That matters that you vote.
Joe Walsh
You
Vote
Police
Voting
Matters
Live
City
City Council
Council
Judges
Chief
Represents
Mayor
Where
Your
Who
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
John Gresham Machen
Every
Christianity
Liberalism
Direct
Point
Rival
Opposition
Chief
Modern
Movements
Two
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford
Art
Culture
Creativity
Matter
Power
Energy
Living
City
Dead
Chief
Form
Reproduction
Convert
Social
Function
Biological
Symbols
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
Lucy Larcom
Friendship
Impossible
Lose
Fathom
Ourself
Would
Something
Mystery
He
Him
Because
Always
Dearest
Were
Friend
Chief
Which
Us
Zest
Beloved
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
Maria Montessori
Work
Creative
Rudeness
Expectation
Patient
Symptom
State
Adolescence
Indifference
Tendency
Had
He
Self-Confidence
Towards
Becomes
Very
Chief
Child
Which
Sensitive
Creative Work
Suddenly
Suffered
Strengthening
Need
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
Somebody
Other
Find
Great Movie
Studio
Lot
Chief
Frightened
Get
Trying
Sitting
Any
Movie
Them
Themselves
Star
Among
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