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I think there are two factors chiefly in play – one is that a lot of folks in the banking industry don’t understand the firearms industry, but I also think that it was the regulatory environment that identified the industry as riskier than others, but now, as I ’m talking to banker friends about the industry, they are much more willing to learn about the industry and address that knowledge gap and I think that’s a great thing. – Camden Webb	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
[The boy has been] in the hospital and doing much better, but there’s obviously a long road to recovery ahead before he can be brought back, our concern chiefly is for the safety of the boy, and to make sure he’s brought back to the United States and put into the safe, supportive environment that he deserves. – Calvin Moore	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Most people just sit at home ... we're stuck here and stuck in the camp, there's very little water, and little fuel. We chiefly rely on aid from UNRWA. It's not much but it's our best hope - every 20 days we get a parcel which is just about enough for a family. – Abu Anas	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
One of the big concerns I have with this draft counter-terrorism bill is that the definition of terrorism is quite vague and open-ended and if we look at how Chinese officials and the media have used the terrorism tag in the past, it's chiefly applied to the Uyghurs as well as the Tibetans. – James Leibold	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There are myriad concerns when looking at this design, chiefly whether or not passengers would be able to evacuate in 90 seconds. – Mary Kirby	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Still the focus is on increasing concerns over slowing growth in a number of emerging economies, chiefly China. And within the G10 currencies, the Aussie and New Zealand dollars are the proxies for that, the majors are still fairly trendless. – Lee Hardman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In coming weeks, the powers are liable to reach a framework agreement with Iran, an agreement liable to leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state, something that would chiefly imperil the existence of the State of Israel, as prime minister of Israel, I am obligated to make every effort to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weaponry that will be aimed at the State of Israel. This effort is global and I will go anywhere I am invited to make the State of Israel's case and defend its future and existence. – Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our supreme interests, chiefly the security and unity of Jerusalem, are not the main concern of those anonymous officials who attack us and me personally, as the assault on me comes only because I defend the State of Israel – Benjamin Netanyahu	added by acronimous 9 years ago
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. – Margaret Oliphant Oliphant	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. – Henry Fielding	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew - – Francis de Sales	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases. – Walter Lippmann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic. – Germaine Greer	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. – Marianne Moore	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion. – Archbishop William Temple, 1955	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring. – Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasnt boring. – Zelda Fitzgerald	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I think there are two factors chiefly in play – one is that a lot of folks in the banking industry don’t understand the firearms industry, but I also think that it was the regulatory environment that identified the industry as riskier than others, but now, as I ’m talking to banker friends about the industry, they are much more willing to learn about the industry and address that knowledge gap and I think that’s a great thing.

– Camden Webb

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

[The boy has been] in the hospital and doing much better, but there’s obviously a long road to recovery ahead before he can be brought back, our concern chiefly is for the safety of the boy, and to make sure he’s brought back to the United States and put into the safe, supportive environment that he deserves.

– Calvin Moore

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Most people just sit at home ... we're stuck here and stuck in the camp, there's very little water, and little fuel. We chiefly rely on aid from UNRWA. It's not much but it's our best hope - every 20 days we get a parcel which is just about enough for a family.

– Abu Anas

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

One of the big concerns I have with this draft counter-terrorism bill is that the definition of terrorism is quite vague and open-ended and if we look at how Chinese officials and the media have used the terrorism tag in the past, it's chiefly applied to the Uyghurs as well as the Tibetans.

– James Leibold

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are myriad concerns when looking at this design, chiefly whether or not passengers would be able to evacuate in 90 seconds.

– Mary Kirby

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Still the focus is on increasing concerns over slowing growth in a number of emerging economies, chiefly China. And within the G10 currencies, the Aussie and New Zealand dollars are the proxies for that, the majors are still fairly trendless.

– Lee Hardman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In coming weeks, the powers are liable to reach a framework agreement with Iran, an agreement liable to leave Iran as a nuclear threshold state, something that would chiefly imperil the existence of the State of Israel, as prime minister of Israel, I am obligated to make every effort to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weaponry that will be aimed at the State of Israel. This effort is global and I will go anywhere I am invited to make the State of Israel's case and defend its future and existence.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our supreme interests, chiefly the security and unity of Jerusalem, are not the main concern of those anonymous officials who attack us and me personally, as the assault on me comes only because I defend the State of Israel

– Benjamin Netanyahu

added by acronimous
9 years ago

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

– Margaret Oliphant Oliphant

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

– Henry Fielding

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

– Francis de Sales

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

– Walter Lippmann

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

– Germaine Greer

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

– Marianne Moore

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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