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Shirky says that societies can foster such behavior if they culturally reward people whenever they devote their time and talents to something that is not just self-amusement but a contribution to public good and civic values.
Tijana Milosevic: A Digital Happily-Ever-After Tijana Milosevic 2011
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Shirky says that societies can foster such behavior if they culturally reward people whenever they devote their time and talents to something that is not just self-amusement but a contribution to public good and civic values.
Tijana Milosevic: A Digital Happily-Ever-After Tijana Milosevic 2011
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But sometimes the difference between self-actualization and self-amusement is less than you think.
Chuck Klosterman on Rock Chuck Klosterman 2010
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Hence, perhaps, the "failure to launch" of many young males who, "preoccupied with self-amusement," struggle to make the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Lost in Electronica 2010
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"To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson.
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So, unless you have some hidden agenda to try and troll this subject for the purpose of self-amusement, I suggest, as has someone else, to let it lie and move on.
Gay life in Mexico 2006
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It's the difference between self-amusement and intercourse.
"Is Pornography Adultery?" Ann Althouse 2008
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Taking photos has become a form of self-amusement, as cameras are now more ubiquitous, with the development of cameras on cell phones and the availability of relatively inexpensive digital cameras.
Rebellious Cute papabear 2008
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Taking photos has become a form of self-amusement, as cameras are now more ubiquitous, with the development of cameras on cell phones and the availability of relatively inexpensive digital cameras.
Archive 2008-12-01 papabear 2008
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Even without her powers, she is like a force of nature who drags people kicking and screaming into her schemes for achieving self-amusement.
Viewing Journal: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (season 1) Bob 2008
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