#chiefly

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ↗

— Socrates

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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged. ↗

— John Woolman

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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. ↗

— Erica Jong

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. ↗

— John Ruskin

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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

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