#modes

I'm a very modest person. ↗

— Drew Brees

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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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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

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It well becomes a young man to be modest. ↗

— Plautus

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I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly. ↗

— James Denton

#as far as #every #far #get #hired

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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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

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