#chief

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds. ↗

— David Horowitz

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The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. ↗

— David Hume

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I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#because #chief #city #coming #course

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#america #british #british columbia #centers #chief

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#assuming #bush #central #chief #competitor

Give her hell from us, Peeves. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#george-weasley #hell #mischief #peeves #umbridge

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#art #art of war #became #castle #chieftain

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#characteristic #chief #displacing #incompetence #journalism

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ↗

— Aristotle

#alike #attained #best #chiefly #democracy

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bread #breaking #chief #dead #means