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“I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that's who I am.”

Thinking Who I Am Modest Outfits Contestants

“Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.”

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Author:Molly Ivins

“To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.”

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Book:Extraordinary tales

Source: Extraordinary tales

“In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.”

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Author:William Greider

“By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.”

Has Beens Ends Law Rights Gold Modest Restraint Bribe Good Faith Bribery

Author:Propertius

“Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away of moral opprobrium from our memory of Hitler. In another fifty years we may well find ourselves weighed down by a second monstrous dream of pure grandeur to match that of the Emperor. Two men who dared. Two men who were adored. Two men who led with brilliance. Two men who administered fairly and efficiently. Two men who were modest in their own needs but surrounded by lesser beings who profited from their situation and came between the Hero and the people.”

Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

“'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.”

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Book:Symeon New Theologian

Source: Symeon New Theologian

“I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.”

Trying Spirit Work Standards Seats Panic Modest Medieval Choir Standards Of Living Carver

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.”

“The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.”

Emotion Media Mass Intellectual Propaganda Consideration Modest Mein Kampf Ballast

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.”

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Author:Daniel Dennett

“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”

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Author:Margaret Halsey

“If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.”

Ifs Men Should Littles Done Humility Eight Queens Accomplished Modest Palaces Visiting Brag

Author:P. T. Barnum

“The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.”

People Ifs Mean America Rooms Successful Groups Percent Population Educated Being Successful Wealthy Odds Successful People Modest

Author:Michael Eisner

“I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.”

Trying Stuff My Own Waste Backgrounds Modest Good Sense

Author:Marco Arment

“The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.”

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Author:Kent Conrad

“My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.”

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Author:Brooklyn Decker

“I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.”

Forget Grew Grew Up Never Forget Modest

Author:Ronnie Dunn

“Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.”

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Author:William A. Dembski

“I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.”

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Author:Dick Gephardt

“I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

“I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.”

Home Guy Painting Modest

Author:Colin Farrell

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