T Quotes
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“The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.”
Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government
“The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.”
“The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.”
“The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.”
Source: Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian
“The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.”
“The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.”
“The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.”
“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
“The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.”
Source: The Sign of Four
“The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.”
“The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.”
“The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.”
“The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”
Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
“The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the reader to feel their own body while they are reading, is this: we live by and through the body, and the body, is a walking contradiction.”
“The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.”
Source: The Challenge of Preaching
“The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.”
Source: Christ in Conflict: Lessons from Jesus and His Controversies
“The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.”
“The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.”
Source: The Bell
“The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.”
Source: The Teaching of the History of Science
“The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.”
“The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.”
“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.”
“The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.”
“The chief signifi cance of the comprehensive systems of unemployment compensation that have been adopted in all Western countries, however, is that they operate in a labor market dominated by the coercive action of unions and that they have been designed under strong union influence with the aim of assisting the unions in their wage policies. A system in which a worker is regarded as unable to fi nd employment and therefore is entitled to benefit because the workers in the fi rm or industry in which he seeks employment are on strike necessarily becomes a major support of union wage pressure. Such a system, which relieves the unions of the responsibility for the unemployment that their policies create and which places on the state the burden not merely of maintaining but of keeping content those who are kept out of jobs by them, can in the long run only make the employment problem more acute.”
Source: The Constitution of Liberty
“The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless.”
“The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.”
Source: Man's Nature and His Communities: Essays on the Dynamics and Enigmas of Man's Personal and Social Existence
“The chief source of problems is solutions.”
“The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.”
“The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.”
“The chief task was to stop the arms race before it brought utter disaster. However, after the collapse of communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, any rationale for having nuclear weapons disappeared.”
Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.”
Source: Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood
“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.”
“The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.”
Source: Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.”
Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.”
Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
“The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.”
“The chief trouble with religion has been too much dependence upon names or words. People fail to discriminate. They do not think. Generally people who think for themselves, instead of thinking according to the rules laid down by others, are considered unfaithful to the established order. In that respect I, too, differ with the established order and established designations.”
“The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.”
Source: THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…
“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.”
“The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind”
“The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.”
“The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.”
“The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.”
“The chiefe boxe of health is time.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose