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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#been #chiefly #closet #displayed #heart

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dead #fork #instrument #into #mouth

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them. ↗

— Jim DeMint

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The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ↗

— William Blackstone

#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#alas #beautiful #chiefly #deed #emotions

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. ↗

— Mos Def

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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. ↗

— Hugh Blair

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