Word: self-respect
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...possession of a headless goat that they must carry twice around the playing field before depositing it at the feet of their king. In the unrestrained fury of the competition Uraz breaks a leg and loses the buzkashi. Partly as penance and partly to regain some measure of self-respect, he sets out with his servant deliberately choosing a nearly impassable mountain route to return home...
There is a time when a change occurs, You are no longer a self-conscious bystander guiltily watching blacks and women (and section leaders) struggle for self-respect but you are part of the struggle because they are part of you. And lest that sound a bit too cosmically self-indulgent, what I mean to say is that whenever you reach a person as a true friend-the kind you can hug energy into and draw hope from-you're in the thick of it, baby! There is no longer the emphasis on a "cause"' because it sounds "just...
...ideas? Moreover, at least one functioning arm of the OEO clearly has a continuing effect: lawyers for the agency have helped organize the poor in their demands for help. Above all, however ineptly, the War on Poverty pointed to the problem of pride: the fact that a measure of self-respect, as well as respect from society, has to go with welfare...
...Left, she is less patient: "Why do they think black parents are striking the schools? Education is not a middle-class value, it's the way to self-respect. The problem with the New Left in this country is that it has no historical roots. It's made up of upper-middle-class kids." On the relative blandness of the people v. the puppets: "Our target kids have enough conflict in their lives. We want our hosts to be an integrated group who treat each other with kindness and respect...
...contradictions and passions of self which interfere with maintaining a consciousness of God. Jean-Louis rejects this doctrine, first on the grounds that it's bad probability ("a lottery"), and secondly that accepting certain worldly pleasures (within reason) doesn't lessen his religious faith. He lives by a sort of operational dialectic, using the science of probability to calculate his freedom within the limits of determined facts, and using moral transgressions, i.e., sex (also within limits) to better his sense of judgment ("women always raise my moral standards"), For him a personal cosmology, self-respect ( amour-propre ), and a clear...