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«Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.»
Author: Bill Bradley
(Basketball Player, Senator)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
collaborative, modest
«So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning»
«Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.»
Author: Karl Popper
| Keywords:
avoidable, benevolent, dictatorship, initiative, in the main, modest, philosophers, public policy, realistic, recognized, replace
«Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.»
«Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.»
«I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.»
«I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.»
«Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.»
«Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Doubt
| Keywords:
beacon, beacons, modest
«I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
churlish, circumstance, countercheck, courteous, degrees, fifth, fourth, modest, quarrelsome, quip, Quips, reply, reproof, reproofs, retort, retorted, seventh, sixth, valiant
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