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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

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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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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

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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

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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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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. ↗

— William Blake

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