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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

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I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

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The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. ↗

— Voltaire

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Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. ↗

— Curt Weldon

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars. ↗