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  • The companies are pouring out millions upon millions to keep up their lying selfindulgent lifestyles.

    Poll: Obama drops on health care 2009

  • Too late, she realized what her selfindulgent slide into anger had done.

    Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

  • Too late, she realized what her selfindulgent slide into anger had done.

    Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

  • For the most part, the blog was filled with snarky and selfindulgent anti-God and anti-christian rhetoric.

    Texas Faith: Should a judge's religious tradition and faith inform their rulings? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Cheap air travel has enticed groups to sunnier and more selfindulgent spots.

    The Glory Of (Yes) Lists 2008

  • Obama would be lucky to have her if he gets off his selfindulgent celebrity and offers her the job and she cares to accept it.

    Clinton Won’t Discuss Appointment Rumors - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • So, too, to the unjust and to the self-indulgent man it was open at the beginning not to become men of this kind, and so they are unjust and selfindulgent voluntarily; but now that they have become so it is not possible for them not to be so.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • This is why the position is not as it was expressed in the formulation of the problem, but the selfindulgent man is incurable and the incontinent man curable; for wickedness is like a disease such as dropsy or consumption, while incontinence is like epilepsy; the former is a permanent, the latter an intermittent badness.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • Compared with the selfindulgent tantrum his creative director, Tom Marsh, had thrown not ten minutes ago, Jason's prank was a minor insubordination.

    Too Many Bosses Freed, Jan 1995

  • So, too, to the unjust and to the self-indulgent man it was open at the beginning not to become men of this kind, and so they are unjust and selfindulgent voluntarily; but now that they have become so it is not possible for them not to be so.

    The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

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