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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Heywood Broun
Love
Distinguishes
Characteristic
Ability
Beasts
Make
Chief
Human
Human Beings
Which
Beings
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
Howard Hawks
Director
Pictures
Make
Chief
Move
Storyteller
Moving
Function
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
Howard Mumford Jones
History
Emerson
Fact
Him
Cultural
Chief
Accounts
American
Movement
Transcendental
Literary
Figure
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
Hu Shih
Life
People
Society
Through
Concern
Chief
Chief Concern
Human
Chinese
Chinese People
Confucianism
Human Society
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Hugh Blair
Fitness
Our
Faculties
Exercise
Source
Chief
Improvement
Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and I couldn't respond much.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Cricket
Respond
Has-Been
Most
Been
Chief
Role
Being
Decisions
Much
Challenging
Career
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.
Isabella Bird
Walls
Plants
Soil
Rich
Grass
Earth
Eat
Some
Vast
Baghdad
Dead
Call
Camels
Balls
Up
Chief
Orange
Being
After
Flat
Which
Little
Products
Desert
Grows
Level
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Air
Attack
Sincerely
Force
Command
Commander
Chief
May
Personally
Fleet
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Appointed
Desire
A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.
Ivan Glasenberg
Aligned
Shareholders
Executives
Because
Deals
Lot
Chief
Done
Fully
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller
Business
Financial
Fears
Long
Pour
Building
Earnings
Markets
Financial Markets
Pressures
Out
Long-Term
Term
Executive
Chief
Chief Executive
Officers
Expense
Energies
Boards
Produce
Succumb
Companies
I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
J. K. Simmons
Police
Somebody
Way
Those
Boss
Voice
Come
Like
Look
Am
Chief
Roles
Low
Who
Dad
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty
Value
Books
Through
Like
Passed
Proverbs
Chief
Esteem
Which
Stamp
Ages
Receive
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
Jack Adams
Me
Class
First
Petty
Promoted
First Class
Got
Chief
Officer
Taught
Which
Shorthand
My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
Jack Keane
Involvement
Began
Chief
Staff
Vice
Guantanamo
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Jacques Barzun
Cause
Anguish
Another
Intellectuals
Chief
Works
It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.
James B. Stewart
Character
Important
Judgment
Most
Qualities
Executive
Said
Chief
Chief Executive
Often
The Most Important
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
James Buchan
Challenges
Age
World
Financial
Three
Our
Must
Tackle
New
Chief
Any
Order
It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.
James Clapper
Intelligence
Intelligence Community
Community
Critic
Commander
Chief
Certainly
Helpful
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell
Men
Most
Chief
Privilege
Prize
Even
Funeral
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
James Wolfe
Old
Sickness
Few
France
Soldiers
Hunger
Unable
Weakened
General
Troops
Withstand
Fresh
Were
Chief
Dependence
Regular
Who
British
It seems like I've been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot!
Jane Yolen
Music
Class
Together
Writing
Words
Vegetables
School
First
Before
Birth
Musical
Carrot
About
Seems
Poems
Both
Since
First Grade
Like
Wrote
Got
Salad
Been
Chief
Bunch
Grade
Who
Played
Started
It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
Jay Alan Sekulow
Justice
Matter
Delay
Assume
Responsibilities
John
John Roberts
Weeks
He
Term
New
Supreme
Roberts
Call
Supreme Court
Court
Without
His
Up
Chief
Chief Justice
Begins
Senate
Duties
Move
Confirm
Full
Swiftly
Now
I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.
Jeff Perry
White
White House
Meet
He
House
Got
George
End
Chief
Sam
Staff
If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made.
Jerry Falwell
God
Justice
Decision
Word
Will
Made
Would
Never
Had
Known
Lord
Am
Been
His
Chief
Chief Justice
Quite
Confident
Warren
Desired
Associates
My nickname is 'Chief' because my father was a chief in Nigeria.
Jidenna
Father
Because
Chief
Nickname
Nigeria
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
Jim DeMint
Hope
Time
Problems
Become
Too
Our
Our Time
Solving
Scared
No Hope
Chief
Confront
Them
Ever
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