And yes, for all the talk of principle, many Tories might just be voting for electoral self-interest rather than an enthusiasm for improving democracy.
Henry Seydoux , whose company is best known for the hands-free sets it builds for cars, has just built a self-stabilizing quadricopter you can control with an iPhone.
And there are those who say that all those 2, 000 Journal reporters and Newswires correspondents might just be self-censoring themselves rather than standing up for what they believe in.
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But at Fortuna they believe that good admissions consulting should provide a coaching experience that helps candidates to use the application process itself as an opportunity for self-discovery and development, not just a tool to get in.
Through the decades, however, the masses have responded most intensely not to calculated appeals to their self-interest (though that didn't hurt) but to selfless, if not self-sacrificing, crusades for what is seen to be just and righteous.
Was this just another embarrassing, even damaging, self-help book targeted at women looking for love in all the wrong places?
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But the FORM 1 isn't just razzle-dazzle, underneath that outer shell is that self-developed technique for bringing stereolithography to the masses, and seeing it in action is as hypnotic as it is innovative.
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Tack the ever-more self-deifying Winfrey onto this equation, and you're just asking for trouble.
Just how many schools will feel the self-confidence to go down this route, for no very obvious gain, remains to be seen.
Imprisoned in our delusional social media bubbles, our Facebook saturated world has become a self-referential stream of real-time updates about what we just ate for breakfast.
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McGuffey's Readers, the books on which generations of American children were raised, have plenty of stories treating initiative, hard work and entrepreneurialism as virtues, but just as many stories praising the virtues of self-restraint, personal integrity and concern for those who depend on you.
The philosophy of self-control and respect for one's opponent outside the arena is just as critical to master as the physical conditioning for when the fight begins.
When we consider the reasons for this rash of self-centeredness, I think most of it comes down to just one thing: bad parenting.
Most recently, the company has announced the "world's first application of self assembly used to create a vacuum around nanowires for next-generation microprocessors, " which just so happens to mimic the natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth.
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