The Argentine tango, too, invokes nostalgia and self-exploration, Frankenberg said.

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Childhood is about self-exploration and identity building.

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"While it's important to treat your internship as a job interview, it's also important to make it a learning experience coupled with self-exploration, " says Holly Stroupe Vestal, a human resources consultant for Bank of America's Banking Center Channel, who was hired full time after her own internship.

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The balance between self-direction, digital exploration, and maintaining productivity is indeed a delicate one.

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We live in the gilded age of self-involvement, not exploration.

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The new musical, a bubbly exploration of self-realization, friendship and evolution, ran during March and April last year at the Vineyard Theatre and the team hopes to further develop and license it.

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These games will join Jonathan Blow's highly anticipated exploration-puzzler, The Witness, as self-published titles making their console debut on the PS4 system.

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At once a confessional and a manifesto, Mr. Fischl's book, written with Michael Stone, will move readers with its tales of a fraught life in art, engage them with its fluent exploration of art-making and likely annoy quite a few with its self-absorption and bombastic pronouncements.

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