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oneself

A person's self: general form of himself, herself or yourself.

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To have doubts about oneself is the first sign of intelligence.
Oneself decides whether it is important.
To know oneself is not easy.
One should wash oneself.
Being underage is the inability to avail oneself of one's mind without the guidance of another.
It is more difficult to defend oneself than to defend someone else. Those who doubt it may look at lawyers.
These days anyone can get oneself books.
To talk about oneself a great deal can also be a means of concealing oneself.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky.
It is the wilderness in the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
There is a vast difference between being able to make oneself understood in English and mastering the English language perfectly.
One should take care of oneself.
It is possible to fence oneself out from the outer world with a newspaper.
We should tell the children how to defend oneself.
Nowadays it's not possible to protect oneself against weapons of mass destruction.
One cannot defend oneself against stupidity.

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They participated in the universal law which is. to please oneself. to seek oneself. and to find oneself.
By breaking statues. one risks. turning into one. oneself.
It's inexcusable for one to introduce oneself to one's future father-in-law over the telephone.
But surely if one lives for oneself, one pays a terrible price for doing so.
But sometimes it's bad to keep things to oneself.
I wonder what it feels like to wake up in the morning and find oneself famous.
Protect oneself, build walls.
Protect oneself from the touch of misery.
Ah, one's never too old to better oneself.
In my position, one daren't risk making a fool of oneself.
You must admit, one doesn't have to turn oneself inside out for an old friend like Gaston.
It's only natural to be concerned about oneself.
One could go out and be lost in it. and forget the world and oneself.
Yet, something in me cries out that this cannot be true. that one must live for oneself.
All the world loves a dancer. To know how to dance. Is to know how to control oneself.
Much better than never to decide oneself.
One mustn't make a spectacle of oneself.
One must adept oneself to the tools at hand.
Don't know how one can drink oneself to death, but that's what she did.
One kills oneself all day making his favorite dish and he doesn't even taste it.
You're just the type. I mean, also scared of oneself.
One must be able to control oneself.
It is so easy to deceive oneself, Maman.
And long-stemmed hothouse roses for oneself.
Running away from oneself.
But in a general partnership company one can't represent the company and make deals with oneself.
To give of oneself, and to sacrifice all for art, that's how one should feel.
The most important thing is to find oneself.
One can't delude oneself very long about oneself.
Apparently its very difficult to poison oneself because its so easy to get the dose wrong.
Not a bed for oneself, no food every day.
I have no intention of sacrificing myself - it's idiocy sacrificing oneself.
One draws a magic circle around oneself to keep everything out that doesn't fit one's secret games.
Because you understand, a lie is really told to oneself.

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Nor is it an answer to demand hasty enactment of legislation in the face of a threat to cause public disorder by starving oneself to death, as Anna Hazare has done.
Xenophobia is a sign of education gone wrong - an expression of narrow-mindedness and the inability to put oneself in the position of others.
Psychologically, this virtue implies the ability to put oneself in others' position.
One can bemoan this fact, but it is better to accommodate oneself to it and accept the notion that it will take decades for Europe to think in the same way on most issues, not least about relations with the US.
Mild depression can result in brooding on negative aspects of self or others, feeling resentful, irritable or angry much of the time, feeling sorry for oneself, and needing constant reassurance from someone.
Time is needed, she says, to build a state and construct a democracy - time and a mixture of pragmatism and faith, of patience and audacity, of respect for others and regard for oneself.
To enroll in a university, for example, one must declare oneself to be a believer in one of the four recognized religions.
To activists of good faith who may have been taken in by duplicitous representations of the movement, I would say only that there are too many noble causes in need of assistance to allow oneself to be enlisted in a dubious one.
This independence was at the core of Hegel's insistence that supporting oneself by earning a living is one of the key ways that we gain a sense of ourselves as individuals.
Of course, self-interested solicitude can lead to inauthenticity, to a sense of always selling oneself--or rather, a sense of having to become someone who can be sold.
After all, the key to successful leadership is to surround oneself with good people, empower them by delegating authority, and then claim credit for their accomplishments.
His namesake showed that concern for nature is inseparable from justice for the poor, social commitment, and peace within oneself.
The Soviet threat generated a readiness to defend oneself and to bear heavy burdens.
To be a professor, it seems to me, one must first have something of importance to oneself that needs affirming, and then one must affirm it.
Decency can be credibly demanded of others only if one practices it oneself.
One cannot credibly thump the table about human rights in one country, but keep one's opinions to oneself in another - an all-too-common occurrence when, say, a trade deal might suffer.
And the temptation to consider oneself the incarnation of the state, rather than its servant, is often irresistible among southern European politicians.
For our ancestors, whose lives were fraught with danger, pain conferred an evolutionary advantage, signaling the need to separate oneself from its immediate source.
Indeed, one recent study found that spending money on others is more rewarding than spending it on oneself.
To the extent that such problems reflect decreased ability to express oneself clearly, the remedy is to improve education.
Pay for the southern European countries or resign oneself to the end of the euro?
Yet there is no point in fooling oneself: Only as long as the Balkan countries believe in the European Union and the benefits of membership will today's precarious peace in the region become permanent.
The idea that one must somehow supplant one's mentor, cast the previous generation out into the wilderness, and make oneself the leader of the pack seems to obsess men.
Their interiors resemble the inside of a smooth plastic jar; there are no hard edges; hooks fold down; there is no bedding that one can use to strangle oneself.

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