Jeff Probyn, who played in the 1991 final loss to Australia, says rugby "teeters on the edge of violence and the self-control is part of that".

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Our self-reliant ethic prevents our communalism from dulling our competitive edge.

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There is also a danger that the market may turn its fears into a self-fulfilling prophecy by starving needy companies of cash and forcing them over the edge.

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This is Zhu territory, right on the edge between disgrace and success, between oblivion and celebrity, between smiling self-confidence and apoplectic fury at incompetence and corruption.

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Bruce's Obi-Wanish trainer, a man named Ducas who is played by Liam Neeson, peddles self-realization nostrums like a cross between Cecil Humphreys's holy man in "The Razor's Edge" and Doctor Phil.

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