Word: oneself
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Every child should be wanted for itself, as an individual. In making a copy of oneself or some famous person, a parent is deliberately specifying the way he or she wishes that child to develop. In recent years, particularly in the U.S., much importance has been placed on the right of individuals to reproduce in ways that they wish. I suggest that there is a greater need to consider the interests of the child and to reject these proposed uses of cloning...
...classless remarks, Ciollo referred to the meet as a "bloodbath" and the "Boston College Massacre." He even suggested that some of his opponents might have to seek therapy after the sound beating they received. There is a fine line between pumping oneself up and spewing aggressive bile, and Ciollo's comments cross...
...fancy products--stamped with the names of the world's finest chefs is just the latest form of gourmet porn. The consumer gets to fantasize that with aids like a dollop of Jean-Georges's special tamarind paste or one of Ducasse's $275 copper saucepans, one can whip oneself and one's guests to the heights of culinary ecstasy. And for the chefs--brash, dashing and at the pinnacle of their artistic careers--their extra-kitchen activities are about creating, and extending, their brand names in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Being a chef today, explains the French-born Vongerichten...
This quote hung on the wall of my high school English classroom. The quote is about identity, and the very fact that someone took the time to voice those thoughts reflects the American preoccupation with personal identity. Furthermore, the quote suggests that the way one presents oneself to others is integral to one's identity--a phenomenon peculiar to this era and this country, according to Neal Gabler...
...real horror in Blindness is therealization that humanity is not in control ofitself--that at the root of all hope, ambition anddreams lies an apathetic demon shrouded in ablinding white nothingness. This stale emptinessis unnoticed by the seeing. Eyes allow one tocover oneself in images, to construct oneselfcomfortably out of the things one sees--to blindoneself, in essence, to the true nature ofhumanity. When sight is gone, and the eye isforever turned inward, the horrifying epiphanythat life is white, pure nothing becomes, inBlindness, the deepest horror imaginable