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• A modest woman has good children.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Children

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• Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

  H. L. Mencken

  Artist, Wife, Faithful

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• And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.

  Paul the Apostle

  Clothes, Hair, Gold

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• Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Acquiescence, Dignity

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• A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

  Mason Cooley

  Seduction, Modesty, Demeanor

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• The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

  Mason Cooley

  Cameras, Modesty, Youth

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• When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, People, Modesty

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• You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Limits, Moderation

  William Shakespeare, Keir Elam (2008). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.171, A&C Black

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• Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

  Val Kilmer

  Giving, Compliment, Born

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Light, Government, Request

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• The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Interview with Alvin Toffler, reprints.longform.org. January 1964.

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• The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Order, Ideas, Income

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.125, Westminster John Knox Press

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• My mother is the one who taught me to be a lady by her actions. I observed the way that she dressed and the way that she carried herself. And both my grandmothers, they were women of very modest means. But they were also ladies.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mother, Mean, Way

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• Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sometimes, Enormous, Effects

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• If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

  Irving Kristol

  Levels, Awful, Damage

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• While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Journey, Discipline, Track

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• To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

  Galileo Galilei

  Wise, Ready, Humane

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• I don't think that I'm modest by any means, but I'm also not an exhibitionist.

  Kristen Bell

  Mean, Thinking, Exhibitionist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

  Girl Talk

  Interesting, Being Real, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Envy, Doe

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam”, p.94

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• Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

  Edward Young

  Soldier, Bombs, Maids

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.293

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• I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

  Ted Turner

  Couple, Mean, Men

  "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.

  John Adams

  Money, Men, Simplicity

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• I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, Skills, Directors

  Source: deadline.com

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• Think that you are part of a big construction called science and you are not just a chemist but you are scientist. Be modest but proud. Modest because you know you will not be able to solve other problems because your life is too short. But be proud because you are contributing to it. Some people will bring a small stone to the building and some people will bring a big one but nevertheless no one can take that stone away from you.

  Jean-Marie Lehn

  Life Is Too Short, Thinking, People

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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