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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

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

— H. L. Mencken

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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. ↗

— Richard Jefferson

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