In America and in Britain, on both the hardback and paperback lists, non-fiction books with a life-affirming or self-improving message are holding their own against those with a downbeat one.
Winfrey, known for a feel-good message and penchant for self-improvement, used the final hour to teach one last lesson.
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In sum, it appears Googleopoly has grown so accustomed to being able to dictate to everyone which information they should accept as most relevant, that they have scant self-awareness when their message does not pass the laugh test with a principled audience that was not born yesterday.
Mr Jakes's message of self-empowerment, cribbed now by most aspiring Kenyan evangelists, may even make a political impact.
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Our correspondent says what is in question is the message such self-imposed exile sends to the outside investors that France hopes to attract.
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he hoped the result would reaffirm the principle of self-determination and send a message to both the international community and to Argentines.
Moreover, is not the message of reliable marketplace self-correction as potentially hazardous as the comfort of a guaranteed government safety net?
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Nothing had remained of that false moment of intimacy, in June 2009, when he had traveled to Cairo, the self-styled herald of a new American message to the Arab world.
And he salts his message with earthy anecdotes and self-deprecating asides.
Whenever a superstar implodes like a supernova and is able to hold it together psychologically, refusing to act-out in self-serving ways, he sends an invaluable message to his teammates.
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The Femen message, with a core belief in self-determination and equality, unshackled from damaging patriarchy, is good and true.
Sadly for self-indulgent humans, none of this affects the basic message about staying healthy, which remains to eat less and exercise more.
There are plenty of Hispanics who rather like the message of the party on business, on self-reliance and on social issues.
Maduro's stunningly close victory followed an often ugly, mudslinging campaign in which the winner promised to carry on Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution, while challenger Henrique Capriles' main message was that Chavez put this country with the world's largest oil reserves on the road to ruin.
Now an analogous message emerges here in politics: a campaign based on self-organizing teams with a laser-like focus on meeting the needs of individual voters is also the future of politics.
You will never hear this from self-nominated "Education Presidents, " but you keep bumping into the message on the Web site of the National Bureau of Economic Research (www.nber.org), definitely the place to be these days if you're looking to relate educational inputs to life outcomes.
Predictions of easing gasoline prices are also being driven by views that there could be potential oil supply overhang concerns coming up in the absence of a strong and immediate message by the successor of Saudi King Abdullah, reinforcing the adherence to self-imposed production limits by OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) members.
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This is the message I heard loud and clear after I posted my experience getting comfortable with self-promotion a month ago.
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Even George Clooney, nominated for two different "message" films, actually spent most of his acceptance speech for Syriana making self-deprecating Batman jokes.
Ironically, this attitude can be self-defeating, since "leaks" are a very effective way of getting one's message out as the Clinton White House often demonstrated.
Self-reporting is another possible example, especially if, by doing so, companies send the right message to the regulators, who, in turn, reduce any fines they see fit to levy.
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One clear message we can draw from Mr Lew's selection is that President Obama feels more self-confident now than he did four years ago, at least when it comes to picking his top economic officials.
Things like measuring and reducing attack surface, self-defending data, damage-potential effort ratios, fully homomorphic encryption, and end-to-end message confidentiality.
Inexplicably, we transfer this illogical message to our investing lives, taking out-sized bets on flaky stocks, following crackpot self-help promoters or simply staying far too long in assets that clearly have run their course.
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