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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads. ↗

— Richard Leakey

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The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. ↗

— Francis Lockier

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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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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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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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