#modes

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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.


Edward Gibbon


#considered #equally #false #magistrate #modes

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.


Walter Gilbert


#doing #establishment #into #modes #move

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.


Augustus Hare


#excellent #follow #indeed #modest #none

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.


Jane Harrison


#either #honorable #humane #manly #meek

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.


Oliver Herford


#aware #charm #enhancing #gentle #modesty

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.


Herodotus


#her #modesty #off #puts #remember

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.


Evan Hunter


#aspirations #award #broadway #i #like

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.


Muhammad Iqbal


#alone #born #environment #growth #his

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.


Hjalmar Branting


#arisen #basically #conditions #confusing #encouraged

I'm a very modest person.


Drew Brees


#modest #modest person #person #very