My adult self loves lasers, too.

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He loves him in the same self-angering way that Cassius, I imagine, used to worship Caesar, before the latter swelled into a god.

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Mr. Marcombes is a soft-spoken, earnest electrical engineer and self-proclaimed geek who loves technology and electronics.

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Like any self-respecting gambler, Mr Edwards loves to win and revels in the spotlight.

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It is also far more gripping, not least because it is told in the vulnerable but never self-indulgent voice of somebody who loves this part of Turkey, and has a soft spot for all the peoples who have lived, loved, died and killed there.

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Even international self-promotion comes naturally to the ambitious Mr Klimin, who loves rubbing shoulders with the glitterati of the fashion world (indeed, at the first opportunity, he whips out a corporate video which, at some length, shows him doing just that).

ECONOMIST: Ivan of all trades

Everyone loves a good pat on the back, but the goal of my first Forbes column is not self-congratulatory.

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