In other words, they are a sort of savior-entity attempting to address the issue of scarcity and resource depletion by rescuing Earth (and Mars, as well as many other planets) from self-destruction by pooling our resources with a potentially unlimited number of other planets throughout the universe.
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But neither are we obliged, by self-interest or self-respect, to be played by every extortionist who comes our way, seeking the prestige of our company and the things we have to offer in exchange for being kept safe from harm.
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Our self-knowledge is blinded, colored by our wishes, fears and unconscious motives, the greatest of which is the need to maintain a high self-image.
"We're pleased we won, and didn't play our best by any stretch, " Self said.
Facebook isn't alone, of course, in offering this seductive fantasy of a radically transparent digital society in which our self esteem is determined by our updates, tweets and check-ins.
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There are all too many Americans that have taken the bait offered by our myriad of welfare programs, and have self-selected into learned helplessness and lifetime dependency.
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While medical science hasn't yet developed a way of preventing our minds being blown by solar eruptions and off-world farming, it is working on self-powered devices to monitor our physical health.
Tellingly, by the time we reach 'Wallow', our self-centred guide is confessing he's "losing all my friends".
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Many of those choices are manufactured to better segment the consumer market, some can be offloaded to experts to make on our behalf and some can be limited by self-imposed constraint.
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Boomers have established the 2.0 model for self-involvement, enhanced by boasting about our most prized assets, our kids, whose attention we crave, and who all too often exist on a broad plain of entitlement that we've hired gardeners to maintain if we're not hoeing and mowing ourselves.
This type of complexity is self-created by the way we structure and manage our organizations.
Women, by nature, tend to struggle with self-doubt more than our male counterparts and, as a consequence, are more reticent when it comes to stepping into bigger roles, advocating for ourselves and taking the risks needed to grow our influence and impact.
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By the standards of some of the flashy self-promoters that grace our pages, Malone lives a quiet life.
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We know that in the United States because we have had a long history of regulation and industry self-regulation including some laws that have been overturned by our Supreme Court because they violated our precious First Amendment that guarantees all Americans freedom of speech.
We said we were building children's self-esteem so they could be successful, but it never occurred to us that giving kids what psychologists call "cheap self-esteem" could do more harm than good by making our kids think they're 10-feet tall and bulletproof when they're neither.
He recognizes that the struggle to control our destructive tendencies can be incrementally moved in the right direction by people becoming more self-aware (or, in language popular today, cultivate mindfulness).
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The area houses numerous military facilities, including the Jamraya research centre, designated by Syria as a scientific research centre "in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defence".
Our need for self-expression is a fundamental human need that can be satiated by various means, not only by company-created brands.
My Administration remains dedicated to writing a new chapter in that history by strengthening our government-to-government relationship with tribal nations while enhancing tribal sovereignty and tribal self-determination.
It starts with our fathers and husbands, and continues with role models and superiors who help build self confidence by giving constructive and positive feedback.
In fact, more than being rational, self-interested, passionate, or imitative creatures at our root, we humans are defined by our uniquely transformational nature.
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