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"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion." »Archbishop William Temple, 1955
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"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasnt boring." »Zelda Fitzgerald
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"[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring." »Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
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"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." »Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
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"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 the government to the utmost." »Aristotle
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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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"I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life." »Arnold Bennett
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"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew." »Saint Francis de Sales
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"Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public." »Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
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"Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness." »Francis Quarles
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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." »Socrates
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"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours." »William E. Channing
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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad." »Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
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"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person." »Socrates
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