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• My favorite leader is George Washington. Because he came from very modest circumstances. He wasn't the son of a plantation owner. He was the son of a farmer. He had no formal education, very frustrated. He started writing a diary when he was in his teens, and he wrote things like, "When I grow up, I want to be respected. When I grow up, I want to be successful. When I grow up, I want to know things." What I find fascinating about Washington is he wanted to make something of himself.

  Les Wexner

  Growing Up, Writing, Son

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• I'm self-critical but also, I'm not a very modest person. I'm self-critical in the lead-up to showing anyone anything. You know how people say they write, like, 30 songs and then they'll pick the ones they're going to put on the record? I don't ever get to that point because I self-edit so harshly at the beginning. I would never let anyone hear something that I wasn't happy with. But then once I've made it, I'm also not going to turn around and go, "Oh, yeah, I don't know..." If I'm putting it out, anything creative that I do, I think that it's good, otherwise I wouldn't put it out.

  Marika Hackman

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.

  Amos Oz

  Dream, Father, Neighbor

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Taller people tend to earn more on average, although the effect is modest. This is clearly true in occupations where strength is important but also a relationship exists in other occupations as well. It could be perceptions, as you say or something systematic. It's somewhat of a mystery.

  Richard H. Steckel

  People, Perception, Important

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We lived in a very modest house. My father drove modest cars, we didn't travel, we didn't do any of the things that, were commensurate with the kind of income that he was making. So we got this kind of, double message, which was, y'know, "You work hard and you make as much money as you possibly can, but you don't spend any money." And you see how well I learned that lesson.

  Neal Gabler

  Father, Hard Work, Car

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I tell the truth and I don't try to sugarcoat things. But I also decided that if you don't use humor or satire, then it's just too dark all the time. And one of my favorite literary works is A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. As you know, that was an enormously famous satire piece that was able to point out, you know, things to people in a different way. And I do believe that satire and humor can reveal truth in a way that sometimes doesn't get revealed through other means. And so I decided to, every now and then, use satire and humor as well.

  Ted Lieu

  Believe, Mean, Dark

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

  Jon Stewart

  Self, Trying, Way

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• Considering LEGO's considerable brand equity, you might expect that the company must have a marketing budget in the billions. Not so. In fact, LEGO's marketing budget is so modest that if I recorded it here, you'd probably think it was a typo. LEGO doesn't do its own talking; it lets LEGO maniacs talk for it.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Thinking, Talking, Marketing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

  Marty Nemko

  Jobs, Giving, Likes

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Important, Outcomes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every ecosystem, even a small one, is sustainable because it has certain ensembles and conditions and influences that are unique to it. And the biological ensembles are almost certainly, even the most modest ones, in the thousands of species. We don't know what's involved in the models - not even the beginnings. And yet we're trying to make a sustainable world, which has to include the natural world. The human species is triumphant, but it's got to get a grip. It's got to come to understand what's happened, why we're this way and what we're doing.

  E. O. Wilson

  Unique, Trying, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It would be nice if at least 1/3 of the people in Korea think that I'm modest.

  Seungri

  Nice, Thinking, Korea

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

  E. O. Wilson

  World, Conservation

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

  Gene Wilder

  Canada, Firsts, Quiet

  Source: keranews.org

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• One of the most effective strategies to make your child more self-control is the weekly giving of allowance or pocket money as an opportunity for parents to teach self-control and model self-control. So rather than just handing the child the money and leaving it at that, the parent hands them a modest amount that has to be managed through the week, sits with the child and takes the time to anticipate what's going to be coming up next week, what the child would like to do and helps them to make choices and understand the limited amount of money they have.

  Terrie Moffitt

  Children, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend to keep my musings to myself. There is interesting, legitimate metaphysical work on the topic going at least as far back as Leibniz and continuing today, following the theme that consciousness, or at least computation, might be at least as fundamental as phenomena such as space, time, energy, and matter, which are the usual subject matter of physics. I follow that sort of thing with interest but with very modest expectations that answers will be arrived at during my lifetime.

  Neal Stephenson

  Space, Expectations, Interesting

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Heart, Sunday, Ugly

  Source: horrornews.net

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• We have to be more modest in what we claim.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Claims

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.

  Allen W. Wood

  Talent, Contribution, Humans

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

  Barbara Holland

  Humble, Self, Ego

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Mistake, Eye

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• The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

  Horace Mann

  Chinese, Speech, Action

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• Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Dull, Entertainment

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.232, Ultramarine Publishing

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• You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Son, Simple, Higher Ground

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.384, Broadview Press

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• Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
  To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.

  William Cowper

  Art, Virgins, Borrowed

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems”, p.76

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