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One of my "jobs," though more self-assigned than anything else, is to try and interest people in wine -- not just drinking wine, but talking about wine, reading about wine, and engaging with the wine world.
Are Wine Experts Doing More Harm Than Good? The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Our understanding of whether we are arrogant or confident, and most other values such as honest, trustworthy, patient, etc., are not able to be self-assigned.
Imam Khalid Latif: Ramadan Reflection Day 14 - Wrestling with Arrogance Imam Khalid Latif 2011
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Most poignant of all was his work as an artist on self-assigned projects that captured the life of a city from its blustering politicians to its mentally wounded.
Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010
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My self-assigned job was to take a picture of one thing interesting.
Catherine Spaeth: No Comment and Strong Decisions - Artists Occupy Wall Street Catherine Spaeth 2011
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Most poignant of all was his work as an artist on self-assigned projects that captured the life of a city from its blustering politicians to its mentally wounded.
Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010
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Most poignant of all was his work as an artist on self-assigned projects that captured the life of a city from its blustering politicians to its mentally wounded.
Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010
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Most poignant of all was his work as an artist on self-assigned projects that captured the life of a city from its blustering politicians to its mentally wounded.
Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010
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And, correlatively, a person who takes to adjective “cis” (whether cisgender or cissexual) is someone for whom assigned gender (/sex) and self-assigned gender (/sex) are in accord.
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Most poignant of all was his work as an artist on self-assigned projects that captured the life of a city from its blustering politicians to its mentally wounded.
Jan Herman: Because You Never Heard of Him... Jan Herman 2010
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But the real presumption is that an unaccountable bureaucracy should use its self-assigned powers to make inherently political choices that will be a colossal drag on economic growth.
Carbon and Democracy 2011
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