#chief

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

— Samuel Johnson

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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

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No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.' ↗

— Claire McCaskill

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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. ↗

— Mack McLarty

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Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out. ↗

— Fay Wray

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Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! ↗

— Chief Seattle

#conservation #nature #quote #nature

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors. ↗

— Aeschylus

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