<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c25d4d4d-db06-46ae-abcb-1150430789be/36566F63-DD69-415A-8892-24489D3DBCD2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.petermanseye.com/curiosities/notables-gossip/742-in-all-modesty" href="http://www.petermanseye.com/curiosities/notables-gossip/742-in-all-modesty" style="font-size: 11px;">www.petermanseye.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.petermanseye.com/curiosities/notables-gossip/742-in-all-modesty"> <P>No matter how they might outwardly appear, a new study in the journal of "<A href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/" target=_blank>Psychological Science</A>" says that if people are normally self-effacing, it's a sure sign of inner confidence.</p> <P>As opposed to a previous theory, that it's a sign you don't like yourself much. </p> <P>The dictionary calls self-effacement the act of "making oneself or one's actions seem less important than they are because of modesty or humility." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.petermanseye.com/curiosities/notables-gossip/742-in-all-modesty">In running for president, <A href="http://www.ronaldreagan.com/" target=_blank>Ronald Reagan</A> was able to deflect his “problem” with age, by making fun of it:<BR><BR>“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'One should not worry about chronological age compared to the ability to perform the task.' Ever since Thomas Jefferson told me that I stopped worrying about my age.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.petermanseye.com/curiosities/notables-gossip/742-in-all-modesty"><A href="http://www.public-speaking.org/public-speaking-selfeffacing-article.htm" target=_blank>Katharine Rolfe</A>, President of the Lighten Up Club, believes the key to a happy life is the ability to laugh at yourself, because you are never without a source of amusement.<BR><BR>We all certainly have the material.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/36566F63-DD69-415A-8892-24489D3DBCD2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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