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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Hope Simplicity Sex Nonchallant
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Hope Sex Clothes Appeal
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Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this:

Black Mysterious Lazy Easy
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

About Best Couple Done
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Above Career Elevate Even
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

Nobody Takes Anything Who
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We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Almost Among Arts Become
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Actions Modest Speech Superior
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Difficult Find Good Modesty
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Charm Conceit Consciousness Danger
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Anger Control Humble Modest
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I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

Person Modest Confident Very
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My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Arises Aspects Car Choices
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Where there is modesty, there is virtue.

Virtue Modesty Where
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Everybody now wants to discover universal laws which will explain the structure and behavior of the nucleus of the atom. But actually our knowledge of the elementary particles that make up the nucleus is tiny. The situation calls for more modesty. We should first try to discover more about these elementary particles and about their laws. Then it will be the time for the major synthesis of what we really know, and the formulation of the universal law.

Universe Science Atom Knowledge
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

Modest Man Usually Admired
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Modest Person Admired Hear
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There’s always elegance in modesty.

Always Elegance Modesty
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Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.
Christian sisters Dress extravagantly
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Public officers must always bear in mind the cliche that power is transient. They have limited time to make their modest contributions and bow out for others to continue. No one can annex public office as a personal chattel. That’s why I recoil from the razzmatazz of public office.

Public officers Mind Power Limited time
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Liked Lover Modesty More
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Author Cell Chained Every
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The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.

Summon Energy Sincerity Greatest modesty
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Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

Course End Fed Just
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
Remember Clothes Woman Puts off
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen

Children Great men Opportunity Learning
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Modesty is the means to all beauty.

Modesty Mean All beauty
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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy

With people Moderate ability Mere honesty Great talent
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

Sincerity Flower Modesty
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Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

Cheerfulness Spirit Heart Charity
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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Modesty Reward Life Exploited
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Watch Modesty Prescence Grounds
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Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Law Modesty Virtue
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Wise Modest man Vain
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