Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of coming into existence by the vitality of one's own nature, without other cause.
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Examples
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For both Nietzsche and Emerson the point was to generate meaning through a continuous act of self-creation.
Stranger in a Strange Land Thomas Meaney 2011
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Achieving an authentic existence is a matter of self-creation, which the form of the novel is well-suited to describing or exemplifying.
Book Reviewing 2010
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Production traditionally introduces a certain percentage of inferior product; which with AI and self-creation, would prepetuate itself.
Economics of Nanotechnology, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Nevertheless, Mencken understood clearly enough that the self-created individuals that Nietzsche described could never arise easily in a democracy, where the self-creation of one citizen inevitably treads on the self-creation of another.
Stranger in a Strange Land Thomas Meaney 2011
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His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.
Malcolm and Barack 2010
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Candy reminds us of the postmodern notion of self-creation -- the way we don social signifiers with the same ease as clothing, constructing our selves bit by bit from cultural cues and images.
Caroline Hagood: New Documentary Tries to Solve the Riddle of Andy Warhol's Candy Darling 2010
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His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.
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When Hawking says that the spontaneous self-creation of the universe "out of nothing" is evidence that a creator was not involved, he is not speaking as a scientist.
Ervin Laszlo: When Stephen Hawking Speaks About God, Don't Mistake Him for a Scientist Ervin Laszlo 2010
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The construction of an online persona on any service is an immense act of self-creation and self-censoring.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Privacy Wars II: Many Faces, One Book 2010
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The construction of an online persona on any service is an immense act of self-creation and self-censoring.
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International: Privacy Wars II: Many Faces, One Book 2010
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