Aristotle picked up the theme, explaining that good self-love is vital for intimacy.
Self-sacrifice is said to be the good, self-interest the evil.
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He added that as well as being good for self-esteem, the sport offers support.
Knowing how to take a good smartphone self-portrait has been an important professional skill for Ms. Craig.
Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?
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The book brims not only with the self-exculpation you might expect but also with a good deal of self-congratulation which, in the circumstances, you might not.
What the Palestinians will not do is accept Mr Barak's good-guy self-portrait on trust.
Though many of us are open to a good deal of self-exposure online, we do draw lines in how much we choose to put on display.
"Whilst Waste Watch believes encouraging people to recycle is a good thing, there is also evidence that suggests self-rewarding people for good behaviours may encourage people only to act in the future if rewarded, rather than acting because they care or value society and the environment, " he said.
Some advantages, like the rewards of education, may seem eminently reasonable and fair, others, like those of good looks and height self-evidently not.
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Lawyers are so good at crafting a self serving sentence.
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Their success at executing good ideas is famously self-evident.
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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 real life, boxers who punch above their weight tend to get flattened, but leave this detail aside: the good citizenship argument is not self-evidently foolish.
Twell, a good-natured mixture of self-confidence and humility, seems comfortable with the parallels being drawn by others between her and a woman she clearly has the utmost regard for.
But it is the Love whose nature is expressed in good actions, marked by self-control and justice, at the human and divine level that has the greatest power and is the source of all our happiness.
In these cases, and thousands like them each and every year, it is not so clear who is the "good guy" exercising responsible self-protection and who is the "bad guy" who can only be deterred by an armed citizen.
Generally when the sons and daughters of Australian immigrants appear on prime-time reality television shows it is with a cooking utensil or a recipe in hand (good food, combined with self-deprecatory humour, have long offered new arrivals here the quickest route to acceptance and assimilation).
Parents argue that the sport is still a good way to learn discipline, self-confidence and self-reliance.
Believers seeking healing regularly visit Mama Safi, a self-proclaimed "good witch, " who gained her powers after being visited by spirits, she says.
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The good news is that even stern self-critics can learn to react to failure the right way by studying the strategies that follow below.
If you're self-employed, good luck trying to find insurance right now.
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Investors also need a good, healthy dose of financial self control, because even if credit is too easy, we allow ourselves to fall prey to it.
And this beneficial outcome follows, remember, on the extreme assumption that voters act not out of concern for the greater good, but out of pure self-interest.
Messrs Skelcher and Davis's research, which predated the Nolan reforms, also found evidence that the great and the good were to a large extent self-selecting: even in quangos where ministers have the final say, they found that most new members were chosen by the existing board often by personal recommendation.
We believe that self-reliance exercised through good sense and a strong work ethic is a virtue that earns limitless rewards.
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It didn't self-destruct, in good part because Wall Street firms and banks started using their own capital to do leveraged buyouts.
The campaign promise that mattered most to Indians was not swadeshi but suraj, good government, a break with the self-absorbed and corrupt governance with which Indians are familiar.
Ultimately, the only way out of this looming crisis lies with the boomer gentry doing something totally out of character: getting past their self-interest and self-love for the good of the next generation.
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