The former he associated with professional and court paintings, the latter with literati or amateur scholar-artists who looked to the idiomatic brushstrokes of past masters and prized painting as an expression of one's inner self and life force.
In August, fact will follow fiction with the arrival of the first real-life self-destructing recording medium.
Their public life has a self-described conservative goal: to protect their vision of domestic life.
This is no laughing matter in most other walks of life where self-centeredness is an obstacle to communication.
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has veered from being one of the country's most powerful politicians in its post-independence history to living a quiet life of self-imposed exile in London and Dubai.
With that popularity comes opportunity -- and not only for Internet land barons like self-proclaimed Second Life millionaire Anshe Chung, but also virtual builders, landscapers and interior decorators, designers of avatar clothing and accessories, and even community moderators and governors.
"Mariah's Challenge stands for integrity, character and honesty and living a life of simple self-respect, " said McCarthy, 52.
After sitting derelict for years, an old folly in Guernsey will soon be given a new lease of life as a self-catering holiday home.
Her writing life was oddly self-contained, even if, by the end of the Potter series, she was receiving between one and two thousand pieces of mail a week.
In August, Chile's Supreme Court had rejected General Pinochet's claim that he was immune from prosecution, both as a senator-for-life (a self-bestowed title) and under a 1980 amnesty law.
The family lives a life of rural self-sufficiency that makes the River Cottage look like a microprocessor plant, raising pigs, keeping bees and growing tomatoes, corn, figs, beans, apples, medlars and pears.
Our deepest desires for life precede significant self-knowledge.
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It was a culture shock after his self-confessed "easy life" back home -- where he admits a love for the local alcohol kava resulted in him getting a gold tooth after coming off second best in a drunken fight.
The single life is inherently self-interested: it calls for vigilance on matters of self-preservation both large (financial autonomy) and small (dish detergent), and, in many cases, it frees the solitary from the sorts of daily interaction that help craft a sense of shared responsibility.
The authors of the study, led by Dr Elena Compan Paveda, wrote that sharing daily meals is a unifying ritual that promotes adolescent mental health, and which could compensate for other factors that might serve to distance family members, acting as a self regulating mechanism for family life.
Although the books and audiovisual resources give inmates a general opportunity in any case to direct their thoughts away from the prison environment, the main value of the prison library is in providing its users with the option of further education and self-reflection, obtaining life skills and improving their reading skills.
For Deacon, the answer has to lie in a closer look at self-organizing processes and how the origins of life and consciousness are rooted in the constraints that bind and shape these processes as they build from the simplest self-assembly of molecules up to the emergence of the first life forms.
Because football can build character and teach invaluable life skills and build self esteem.
First off, though he was certainly self-made, his early life story was hardly one marked by poverty.
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Their life is almost entirely self-sufficient: They keep livestock, hunt elk and the children are schooled at home.
He reveals, or even fortifies, the fact that self-parody has become the life-support system of international art infrastructures.
The advent of self-service stations will make life even harder.
In America and in Britain, on both the hardback and paperback lists, non-fiction books with a life-affirming or self-improving message are holding their own against those with a downbeat one.
While the natural inclination after something like a brain aneurysm might be to completely reconfigure your value system and give up on much of your old life in favor of self-preservation at all costs, you have to resist that urge.
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Acquiring literacy skills gives women a sense of self-confidence and control over their life and future.
By far the biggest long-term issue for anyone knocked down in life is the loss of self-esteem.
Study after study shows that money, after getting above the line of self-sufficiency, does not improve life satisfaction.
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