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"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
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"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
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"At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings."
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"Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more."
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"Dressing appropriately in one venue may be highly inappropriate in another. Yet every day we see a lack of modesty and taste, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes others feel."
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"We have to stop anyway. I don't want you to regret this later. And I don't want your head to explode.""Really? You're so good that my head would explode?"It took him a moment. His expression changed from intense to speculative. "It's a possibility. I'm not a doctor, but Doolittle says it could happen.""That's a lot of expectation to live up to.""I exceed expectations."So modest, too."
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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
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"He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction, he had on the contrary an engaging modesty."
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"Some things sound better if they don't come from you."
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"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
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"We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds."
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"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"
Beauty
"I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties."
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"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
Modesty
"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents."
Art
"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."
Fear
"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands."
Beauty
"Chess is not only knowledge and logic."
Knowledge
"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give."
Happiness
"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."
Chess
"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime."
Time
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