While those founding truths about liberty and equality may have been self-evident, they are not self-perpetuating.
Harris Interactive conducted the survey online for CareerBuilder, polling 4, 216 full-time workers who were not self-employed.
But if you have to buy your own insurance and you're not self-employed, you don't get any tax help.
Do not self deploy until a need has been identified and the local community impacted has requested support.
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.
If said conclusion is not self-evident to you, well, you should examine your own prejudices, because this process is fundamentally sound.
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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Furthermore, he highlights unemployment as a reason that the economy could slow down and signals legitimate fears that the economic recovery is not self-sustaining.
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Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
But corals are not self-sufficient, say the authors of the report.
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.
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.
But, as the report points out, the fact that there are poor people in a country with such access does not self-evidently justify lending by the Bank.
Transactions involving distance or, especially, time are not self-enforcing: a promise to pay next week for goods received this week is a risky contract for the seller.
"I offered several (unconvincing) reasons why it was reasonable to assume that the participants' reports of change were credible and not self-deception or outright lying, " he wrote.
On the one hand, it is not self-evident that those interests will be served by directly implicating the United States in any future conflict between Syria and Israel.
For its part, PokerStars said in a statement that its suitability for a gaming license is a matter for expert regulators to determine, not self-interested partisans picking a public fight.
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 answer to this problem is not self help.
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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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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.
Thus, the Trust was not self-settled.
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However, this is only ever likely to be effective if those involved feel psychologically safe, meaning they will not self-censor for fear of being seen as obstructive, negative, incompetent, not a team player, or for putting an otherwise amicable working relationship at risk.
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.
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