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  • Commendable if true: few pop icons have the selfknowledge or greed-immunity to make such a move.

    Jerry Seins Off 2008

  • Bloom not only provides illuminating guidance on how to read a text but also illustrates what such reading can bring -- aesthetic pleasure, increased individuality and selfknowledge, and the lifetime companionship of the most engaging and complex literary characters.

    How To Read And Why: Summary and book reviews of How To Read And Why by Harold Bloom. 2000

  • The diaries reveal a sense of apotheosis, the terrible journey back from the Pole was a moral drama about the attainment of selfknowledge.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • Descriptive of the state of serene selfknowledge reached through drink.

    The Meaning of Liff Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1983

  • It is a remarkable proof of his selfknowledge that, from the moment at which he began to distinguish himself in public life, he ceased to be

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • How come when a girl is outgoing and friendly people act like they are just sluts? you have bery wrong ideas about life and people and obviously you lack maturity and selfknowledge

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • How come when a girl is outgoing and friendly people act like they are just sluts? you have bery wrong ideas about life and people and obviously you lack maturity and selfknowledge

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

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