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• People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism. New Zealand is not worried about terrorism. Holland is not worried about terrorism. Why not be a modest little country without all of these enormous ambitions?

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Ambition, People

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• I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it makes me happy and it looks good in my home. I also have a pretty big collection of art books mainly, again, on photography. A lot of photography monographs, which is great because with photography, the art itself can be reproduced quite well in book form.

  Chris Parnell

  Photography, Art, Book

  "Chris Parnell on Farrah Fawcett and being mistaken for Chris Kattan". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2015.

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• I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Modesty, Virtue

  "Maya Angelou on Integrity", www.achievement.org.

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

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sometimes, Enormous, Effects

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• Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

  Publilius Syrus

  Eye, Men, Mind

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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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• Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, People, Giving

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• The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

  Confucius

  Art, Kindness, Home

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Baseball, Thinking, People

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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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• People always tell me I'm too modest, and that I'm allowed to tell myself now and then that I'm good at something. Well okay then, the bathroom is very (beautiful) clean right now.

  Willemijn Verkaik

  Beautiful, People, Bathroom

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• For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that could attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous, I decided to form a separate company, with the object of making and marketing this new watch. It is called the Tudor Watch Company.

  Hans Wilsdorf

  Years, Ideas, Marketing

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• Modest. When they meet me, they think I'm going to be outgoing, but I like things low-key. I don't like people to think I'm bragging.

  Laura Prepon

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. How can we ever be content that he should acquire just a little more honour in the world? No. Once we are clear that God is King, then we long to see him crowned with glory and honour, and accorded his true place, which is the supreme place. We become ambitious for the spread of his kingdom and righteousness everywhere.

  John Stott

  Kings, Ambition, Self

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• Most of the people in the upper income brackets are not rich and do not have wealth sheltered offshore. They are typically working people who have finally reached their peak earning years after many years of far more modest incomes-and now see much of what they have worked for siphoned off by politicians, to the accompaniment of lofty rhetoric.

  Thomas Sowell

  Years, People, Earning

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