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Crowds of humble mortals stride the pavements down below while, three or four stories above, on the façades of buildings, a very different crowd of carved stone beings, the Olympian gods and goddesses, throng the upper air, in clear illustration of the dualistic character of all existence: mortals below, immortals above, flesh here, stone there; the ever-changing, the everlasting.
Liar's Poker is largely credited with transforming the investment-banking profession from the collection of arrogant greedheads it was in the 1980s to the humble and public-spirited group it is today.
… In an interview , George W. Bush begins to lay out his foreign policy vision: "[The United States] should not retreat" but should "be humble in its leadership."
Should we invite these young wealthies back to our comparatively humble, small home?
"The world feels this," Berman declares: "humble, skeptical, anxious, afraid, shaken."