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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Humility

A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.
Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.
Before honor is humility.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. [Philippians 2:3]
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.


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