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• Unlike Hezbollah, Israel’s more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.

  Mark Helprin

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• A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• To test a modest man’s modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

  Franz Grillparzer

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• I had a very modest upbringing.

  Balthazar Getty

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• I’m not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

  Colin Farrell

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• Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

  Clyde Tombaugh

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• I’m not shy. I’m modest, but I’m very outgoing.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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• The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

  Edgar Watson Howe

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• Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

  Russell Baker

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• I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we’ve made a very modest movie.

  Walter Hill

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• The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

  Paul Cézanne

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• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  Abraham Cahan

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• True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

  Ralph W. Sockman

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• Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

  Oscar Levant

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• Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

  Bill Clinton

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• It’s like the mod thing is happening again.

  Pete Townshend

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• Thanks to nanny, I’ve got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

  Modest Mussorgsky

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• A modest dog seldom grows fat.

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