Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ought" to educate oneself does not mean one "must" do so. Rather, it implies that such activity is in keeping with the needs of one's character structure...
...advertising man were asked to advise young people about going into politics as a career," added Lusk, finally letting himself go, "he could say that politics is a business associated with all kinds of unsavory characters; that one must compromise oneself with campaign promises; that countless politicians have been grafters and crooks...
...psychic shelter of the man of today," Giedion declared. But the straight-line styles of Bay-Ridge and split-level architecture are inadequate expressions of "the many-sided nature of man's inner life." These styles, he continued, represent a tendency to escape doubt and uncertainty by attaching oneself to superficialities without solving basic problems...
...Gandhi's conviction was further bolstered by Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Thoreau's famed essay Civil Disobedience, both written by men who made celebrated attempts to carry out nonviolence. What emerged in Gandhi was a hard-boiled idea that sacrificing oneself is ultimately more effective than sacrificing others...
Since people identify themselves with a hero, he said, pity is really "feeling sorry for oneself." Accordingly, he entitled one section of his speech "In praise of Self-Pity." "We don't lament in English," he said, and the phrase "O woe is me" is eliminated from translations of Greek dramas. 'But if we have dismissed self-pity from daily life, it remains in our night life. We still weep in our dreams...