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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

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While still practising law, he'd run a hearse-rental agency. Then, later, he'd bought into a handkerchief factory in Baker Park. Their most famous innovation was the funeral hankerchief, a plain white cotton handkerchief with a black border. Not long afterwards he patented the first black-edged tissue. He'd made millions, apparently, though nobody knew what he'd done with the money. His only extravagance had been to install an elevator in the house, so he could move between floors without getting out of his wheelchair. 'So what did he mean about hearing money?' Jed asked. 'It's his factory across the river. He claims he can hear the money being made. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

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Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! ↗

— Chief Seattle

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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— John F. Kennedy

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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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