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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life
Jonathan Edwards
The pursuit of God's dominion is the primary occupation of the Christian faith.
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The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
Thomas Keating
The primary obstacle that disconnects us from the Divine is the notion that we are estranged from the Almighty.
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
Daniel Dennett
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The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.
Hilary of Poitiers
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Chief Keef scares me... not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.
Lupe Fiasco
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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
Bernard Law Montgomery
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The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
Freeman Tilden
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A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.
Richard Rorty
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The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
Galen
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I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.
Nan Goldin
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The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
Desiderius Erasmus
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For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The chief merit of language is clearness.
Galen
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Henry David Thoreau
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Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.
Thomas Brooks
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The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.
Gilbert Highet
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Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.
Barry Goldwater
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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
Jim DeMint
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In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.
James G. Frazer
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Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.
Jerry Falwell
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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
John Stott
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In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.
Leo Tolstoy
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One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Kim Stanley Robinson
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A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
Chief Joseph
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson
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The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
Michael Porter
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
Anthony Trollope
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The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
Robin G. Collingwood
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
Sitting Bull
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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
William Morris
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
Viktor E. Frankl
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The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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President O[bama] talks the talk and then walks a completely different walk. I would call him the divider-in-chief.
Eric Bolling
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Jacques Barzun
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The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative.
Marilyn Monroe
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Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
Jean Paul