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oneself

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An already growing audience which is one reason that calling oneself a feminist is being avoided.

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An already growing audience which is one reason that calling oneself a feminist is being avoided.

Example sentences

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An already growing audience which is one reason that calling oneself a feminist is being avoided.

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(By self-referential I mean one who understands oneself absolutely; one who possess a perfectly accurate map of oneself.

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The trick is to find something else to dedicate oneself to.

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Does this mean some form of mystery about oneself must always remain?

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There might be a bias when it comes to presenting oneself as the 'fellow whose boots are yellow'.

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One of the big problems is that people can see the errors on others, but not in oneself.

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They should not feel burden with the need to be extroverted, or be something other than oneself.

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But one can learn to distinguish oneself from ones default thoughts, which are just recordings that get cued up by triggers.

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Does its autocomplete database update quickly and automatically, or must one trigger the update oneself?

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I also have direct personal experience with overworking oneself into a state of exhaustion and mental breakdown.

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So it's a matter of skilling oneself up, specialising or searching carefully.

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But he's also a great example of how to comport oneself online.

Quote examples

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It's unlikely that they meant "preferred pronoun" to be about a singular person generally, since it commonly refers to preferences about oneself.

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Yes, because it's most certainly required to upload and "prove" all claims about oneself on the internet.

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> It's unlikely that they meant "preferred pronoun" to be about a singular person generally, since it commonly refers to preferences about oneself.

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If you like that, you might also like Thoreau's 1854 book "Walden"[1] It is over 100,000 words about ignoring the silly distractions in town and making close observations of nature that help one to "discover oneself".

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An already growing audience which is one reason that calling oneself a feminist is being avoided.