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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
Isaac Disraeli
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
P. J. O'Rourke
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Barbara Ehrenreich
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Sarah Fielding
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Charles Horton Cooley
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Sarah Palin
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.
Meg Whitman
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
Rebecca H. Davis
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
James D. Watkins
We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'
Robert Teeter
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
William Shenstone
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
Mack McLarty
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
Adam Clymer
When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.
Jim Evans
When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
George Crook
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