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• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Tents

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane.

  Guy Debord

  Powerful, Class, Achievement

  Guy Debord (2014). “The Society of the Spectacle”, p.39, Bureau of Public Secrets

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• Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

  Karl Popper

  Happiness, Fighting, Inner Peace

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.465, Routledge

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• He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.

  Barbara Wagner

  Talking, Years, People

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• We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost

  George McGovern

  Cost, Done, Hunger

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• In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams . . . There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world.

  Margaret Maron

  Dream, Hero, Bars

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• The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.

  David Whyte

  Reality, Stories, Might

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• All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family that’s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it.

  James Atlas

  Jobs, Glasses, Envy

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• My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

  Jason Gray

  Weakness, Possibility, Boundless

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• When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.

  Jason Evert

  Men, Veils, Body

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• Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

  Andree Putman

  Beautiful, Feelings, Secret

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• Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.

  W. Patterson

  Winning, Games, Feelings

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• Edward Isaac Bickert in never one to blow his own horn - figuratively - he is one of the most modest and unassuming men in Jazz. But literally - he blows up a storm .

  Frank Rutter

  Blow, Men, Storm

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• The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Girl, Veils, Modesty

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• Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Fashion, Should Have, Needs

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• Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

  Ellen G. White

  Simple, Quality, Durability

  Ellen G. White (1905). “The Ministry of Healing—Illustrated”, p.259, Digital Inspiration

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Life, Conceited, Genius

  1868 Little Women, pt.1, ch.7.

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• I consider that all Jews in the Diaspora, and thus it is true in France, should everywhere they can lend their support to Israel. This is why it is also important that Jews take political responsabilities. .... In sum, in my functions and in my everyday life, through the whole of my actions, I try to make so that my modest stone is brought to the construction of the land of Israel.

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn

  Israel, Land, Support

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• I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

  Ed McBain

  Winning, Awards, Musical

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• Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

  Karl Kraus

  Artist, Vain, Duty

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.431

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• Give me a little peace.
  A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.

  James Goldman

  Giving, Littles, Give Me

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• I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.

  Jack Valenti

  Home, School, Kids

  Entertainment Weekly, April 18, 2003.

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• As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  School, Mean, Clothes

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• The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Men, Generosity, Envy

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