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The chief cause of problems is solutions.


Eric Sevareid


#chief #problems #solutions

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


#funeral-tissue #hearing #hearse #money #money

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!


Chief Seattle


#conservation #nature #quote #nature

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.


Jack Adams


#class #first #first class #got #me

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.


Khalil Gibran


#chief #first #found #hand #heart

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


#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

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


Aeschylus


#concern #doors #exists #give #man

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.


Kingsley Amis


#catholic #chiefly #church #currently #did

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.


Mary Antin


#close #command #congregation #czar #emperor

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.


Hannah Arendt


#become #chief #error #infallibility #leader






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