For one thing, it is important because it sets animals with a sense of self apart from those without a sense of self.

一方面，它很重要是因为它把有自我意识的动物和没有自我意识的区分开来。

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Being aware of your self-expectation with a clear future blueprint lays a foundation for this important decision.

意识到自己的期望以及清晰的未来蓝图为这一重要决定奠定了基础。

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But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important making a fool of themselves.

但是，看到一些高傲的人出洋相时，当然也会产生一种幽默的满足感。

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If anything, this was close to whistle-blowing: the person did not put their name in the data (in a self-important way), and in fact released a memo suggesting a clear whistle-blowing mentality in the second round of revelations.

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And it remains exactly the same organisation: a self-important body that treats its members like demi-gods and requires a super-majority of 60 votes even to break a filibuster.

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These participants ranked things -- friends, family, a hobby or a religious value -- that were important to them and wrote down a few sentences about why their top-ranked value was important (this is a standard self-affirmation exercise, Creswell says).

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