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.
While those founding truths about liberty and equality may have been self-evident, they are not self-perpetuating.
It was a drag on our economy, and the kind of self-inflicted wound that we should not be self-inflicting here in Washington when we have so many challenges that we need to solve.
If George Allen, who had a gigantic lead three months ago going into this race - had he not self-destructed, I think George Allen would be still in the Senate.
The survey, conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder, polled 3, 892 U.S. workers (employed full-time, not self-employed, non-government) ages 18 and over between May 14 and June 4, 2012.
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The question is whether we might over time get the banks and bankers the economy needs - sounder, providing credit where it is really needed - if those banks and bankers were treated not as self-destructive infants but as teenagers trying more often than not to do the right thing.
Many of the men on Spanish boats now come from Africa or Latin America, and most of the subsidies go to big industrial-fishing combines, not self-employed fishermen.
On the other, education exacerbated his self-consciousness about class, not least his self-confessed obsession with his own cultural proficiency compared to that of his peers, many of whom were solidly middle class.
Harris Interactive conducted the survey online for CareerBuilder, polling 4, 216 full-time workers who were not self-employed.
Because S corporation income is not subject to self-employment tax, there is tremendous motivation for shareholder-employees to minimize their salary in favor of distributions, which are also not subject to payroll or self-employment tax.
Ashton said the defeat - his 10th in 21 Tests since taking over from Andy Robinson - had not affected his self-belief.
All we're asking for folks who have been blessed -- like me -- I mean, I'm not being self-interested here.
Still the role models presented to young girls and women through fictional or historical characters are more often than not those who come to a bad end if they are not self-sacrificing, or are rewarded (with the man, usually) if they do put their own aspirations aside.
When positive self-statements strongly conflict with self-perception, she argues, there is not mere resistance but a reinforcing of self-perception.
For those who are not gifted with high self-awareness, not all is lost.
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Most Thais would not appreciate self-serving political maneuvers in a time of national distress.
But if you have to buy your own insurance and you're not self-employed, you don't get any tax help.
"That particular scripture has to do with insult and not with self-defense, " he said.
It is not another self-congratulatory CEO memoir, but a well-researched and interesting forecast for our economy.
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In the process we learned that our lofty principles were not a self-imposed handicap or competitive disadvantage.
Around nine million of these people, plus six million family members, are covered by employers who do not self-insure.
Everyone loves a good pat on the back, but the goal of my first Forbes column is not self-congratulatory.
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Mr Erdogan's government offers Turkey's Kurdish region money and investment but not self-rule.
It tends to be the very same Green Party which points out that the UK is not self-sufficient in food.
In all emergency and disaster situations, volunteers should not self-deploy -- for their own safety and the safety of others.
His character heads are not quite self-portraits, but the faces reflect his feelings as simultaneously observed from outside and within.
If said conclusion is not self-evident to you, well, you should examine your own prejudices, because this process is fundamentally sound.
Again, there is little precedent for the conversion of a closed-end fund to an operating company, if not for the self-dealing.
Yet it is not self-evident that less work would mean more happiness.
Checking Twitter or Facebook is simply not self-limiting in the same manner.
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