It's online, it's distant, and it's based on mutual self-gratification.
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There's a lot of sex on there but it's all self-gratification.
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So, at least you're shopping for a really good cause ... besides self-gratification.
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The president is a narcissist who gathers power for personal gain self-gratification.
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" The Cut reports that a presenter told students, "self-gratification can prevent sexual assault.
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They may not use his particular cover and cast pitiless self-gratification as a healing touch.
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He treats it, as he treats everything else in American government, as a private tool of self-gratification.
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Just as with the physical burnout, researchers found overworked brains were much more likely to choose immediate self-gratification.
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"What we have is the quick fix, the need for instant self-gratification," he told The Los Angeles Times in 1989.
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Then again, pretty much everything she does is an act of self-sabotage, even when it's in the name of self-gratification.
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It will examine the pathology of power in the service of self-gratification and self-protection — from the law and from accountability.
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I spoke with him recently about those consequences, and why he thinks the Enlightenment produced a civilization obsessed with consumption and self-gratification.
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"There's nothing wrong with partying, but when we do it only for self-gratification, it becomes hedonism," says Rishe Groner, communications director for Gratitude Migration.
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When you visit a farm-to-table restaurant and order the wild-nettle sformato for thirty dollars, the line between social consciousness and self-gratification disappears.
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The action throughout the half-hour is entirely centered around a competition between Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine to see who can go longest without self-gratification.
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The Trump cabinet is worth trashing on so many important levels that it does seem unfair to judge the members simply on the basis of stupid moves of self-gratification.
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"What we try to do with our players is be very technical about the things that they did well and get them positive self-gratification with those things," Saban said recently.
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The proprietor, Decio Raddi, whose grandmother founded the place, showed me to my table overlooking the water, where I settled in for what I knew would be a full afternoon of maritime self-gratification.
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Instead what we saw this election was the opposite: cultural figures on the left performing protests against Trump that had no impact at all and that appeared to have no purpose other than self-gratification.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "A Stern Message to North Korea" (editorial, March 3): Once again the Security Council has had its moment of self-gratification by voting unanimously for stringent sanctions against North Korea.
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"As a public official, which is prime minister and minister of finance, used your position for self gratification (for a) total of 42 million ringgit," Attorney General Tommy said referring to the abuse of power charge.
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He opened the White House door wide to unmoored and unserious people, most recently Anthony Scaramucci, who, during his nanosecond as communications director, disparaged Bannon as someone engaged primarily in a limber act of self-gratification.
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The best song on SZA's CTRL, Noisey's album of the year, is "The Weekend," a woozy track about the upside of infidelity, an oasis of almost pure lyrical self-gratification on a record that's never far from anxiety.
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The suit seeks "actual damages for battery, loss of liberty, unconstitutional search and any emotional damages" stemming from claims that the female officer groped the woman's vulva for self-gratification as well as to "humiliate, dominate, and control" her.
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It's a commitment that we make to other people that involves us getting out of our own heads, and the constant self-curation online, the constant self-gratification of smartphones and social media, makes it harder for us to do this.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Malaysian prosecutors on Wednesday said former prime minister Najib Razak abused his power to cover up the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from the state-fund 211MDB and used the fund for self gratification.
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" For Updike, even subpar novels of heterosexual coupling still concerned themselves with "the perpetuation of the species and the ancient, sacralized structures of the family," and thereby possessed a certain inherent interest; in "The Spell," by contrast, "nothing is at stake but self-gratification.
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And though Kinsella's incessant need to push his own boundaries was always more about musical self-gratification than about purposely eluding some word, as the years went by, Joan of Arc's output veered further and further away from the "emo" sound, and deeper into the experimental.
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"I feel very fortunate that I am a person of faith, that I was raised in my church and that I have had to deal and struggle with a lot of these issues about ambition and humility, about service and self-gratification, all of the human questions that all of us deal with," the former secretary of state said.
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Um, I feel very fortunate that I am a person of faith, that I was raised in my church and that I have had to deal and struggle with a lot of these issues about ambition and humility, about service and self-gratification, all of the human questions that all of us deal with, but when you put yourself out into the public arena, I think it's incumbent upon you to be as self-conscious as possible.
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Here the specified disorder is the lying for psychological reasons (not material ones e.g. sexual self-gratification etc.) and the behavior would also need to meet the necessary conditions to be viewed as a psychiatric illness.
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Lovers in Paris follows the story of three people who will discover the complexities of love. For Carlo, love is but a responsibility. For Vivian, love is the greatest thing to give and to receive. For Martin, love is self-gratification.
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Criminals are predominantly motivated by their “freedom to carry out activities that would otherwise be deemed illegal”. As such, criminals thrive on instant self-gratification of engaging in violent acts against their enemies. Criminals thrive on conflict and in a sense believe their actions are heroic.
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While his definition of the sons of belial was consistent with the Hebrew meaning of "worthless" individuals focused on self-gratification, Cayce went on to use the term frequently to compare opposing human forces at work in pre- historical times related to the early development of Atlantis.
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As time goes on, Thierry has to sell the business and become basically a (vice president) figurehead. He is emotionally adrift as his dreams give way to disillusionment. Johnny, an artist painter by trade, has been working for Thierry's business to help support his paintings. His only religion is self- gratification.
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Impulse buying disrupts the normal decision making models in consumers' brains. The logical sequence of the consumers' actions is replaced with an irrational moment of self gratification. Impulse items appeal to the emotional side of consumers. Some items bought on impulse are not considered functional or necessary in the consumers' lives.
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Neil thought it unforgivable, to be giving up art for self-gratification and big money, so they broke up. A pregnant Olivia was found to have ovarian cancer, but refused to abort the baby to save her life. After the birth, Olivia was to have a hysterectomy, but it and the cancer subject was dropped. Their son, Nathan Hastings, Jr., was delivered early to save Olivia's life.
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In newer times, arangetrams have become popular in the US and Europe. Some evolve into lavish affairs rather than a celebration of the art. Like other activities that children pursue, arangetrams have been criticised for creating peer pressure. Although arangetrams used to be meant for students with intensive training (close to eight years) with an intent to pursue the art, many now use it for self gratification.
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Loyalty to institutions, traditional religious faiths, and other common bonds were what that generation considered to be the cultural foundations of their country. Gen X'ers gradually abandoned those values in large numbers, a development that was entrenched during the 1970s. The 1970s have been described as a transitional era when the self-help of the 1960s became self- gratification, and eventually devolved into the selfishness of the 1980s.
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The poem can be read simply for its ideas regarding the young man's beauty being expressed metaphorically in terms from the world of money, but the sonnet contains subsidiary meanings or innuendoes that refer to masturbation or auto-eroticism. The innuendos suggest it is a waste for the young man to spend his seed on self-gratification, and not use it for reproduction.Shakespeare, William. Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
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Hedonism posits that the principal ethic is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. There are several schools of Hedonist thought ranging from those advocating the indulgence of even momentary desires to those teaching a pursuit of spiritual bliss. In their consideration of consequences, they range from those advocating self- gratification regardless of the pain and expense to others, to those stating that the most ethical pursuit maximizes pleasure and happiness for the most people.
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Several excerpts were published in The New Yorker and other magazines. The Pale King was published on April 15, 2011, and received generally positive reviews. Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times wrote that The Pale King "showcases [Wallace's] embrace of discontinuity; his fascination with both the meta and the microscopic, postmodern pyrotechnics and old-fashioned storytelling; and his ongoing interest in contemporary America’s obsession with self- gratification and entertainment." It was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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New York: Diadem Books, 1984. Print. It may be argued that historically, India pioneered the use of sexual education through various art forms like sculptures,Sahai, Surendra.1999. Khajuraho: The Art of Love, Prakash Book Depot paintings, and pieces of literature. As in all societies, there was a difference in sexual practices in India between common people and powerful rulers, with people in power often indulging in "self-gratification" lifestyles that were not representative of common moral attitudes.
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"In the shadow of Napster", Star-News, p. 18. In 2003, they released their first full length with Volcom Entertainment, "The Amplification of Self-Gratification", and immediately began a tour to promote it, playing portions of the 2003 and 2004 Vans Warped Tour. After the '04 Vans Warped Tour, ASG went to Los Angeles to record their 2nd Volcom release, Feeling Good is Good Enough,Holmberg, Mark (2006-03-30). "ASG: Feeling Good Is Good Enough", Richmond Times-Dispatch, p. G13.
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Dorothea Puente was finally arrested on a parole violation, having been on parole for a previous fraud conviction. Contract killers ("hitmen") may exhibit serial killers traits, but are generally not classified as such because of third- party killing objectives and detached financial and emotional incentives. Nevertheless, there are occasionally individuals that are labeled as both a hitmen and a serial killer. Richard Kuklinski who worked for the American Mafia earned tens of thousands of dollars for a "hit" also killed for self gratification with no financial incentives.
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Before his retirement, he held a seat in the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), and worked as a First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. After his forced retirement following allegations of embezzlement and corruption, Yuri became a pensioner. Soon after becoming a pensioner Yuri was arrested, and all his belongings were confiscated. In contrast to his sister, Galina Brezhneva, who was known for her temper and self-gratification, Yuri was a shadowy figure who disliked public attention.
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ASG started with the name All Systems Go in 2001, but shortened to the acronym ASG after a brief copyright issue with another band of the same name. Through the years the band has claimed in jest that 'ASG' has several alternate meanings, including "amplification of self gratification", "all systems gone", "anarchist school for girls" among others. ASG recorded and self released their debut album/demo in 2002 (later released by Volcom in 2005). Soon after in 2003 they signed with Volcom EntertainmentHotz, Amy (2003-10-09).
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Emma was a six-part TV serial adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma by BBC Television that was broadcast in 1972. It was directed by John Glenister. This dramatization brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's arguably finest novel Emma, recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character, of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like." Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.
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The cause of rumination syndrome is unknown. However, studies have drawn a correlation between hypothesized causes and the history of patients with the disorder. In infants and the cognitively impaired, the disease has normally been attributed to over-stimulation and under-stimulation from parents and caregivers, causing the individual to seek self-gratification and self-stimulus due to the lack or abundance of external stimuli. The disorder has also commonly been attributed to a bout of illness, a period of stress in the individual's recent past, and to changes in medication.
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Greg Quill, who writes for the Toronto Star, commented that "the notion of individual as opposed to institutionalized self-improvement", a recurring theme for the singer, was present "to a lesser extent in the love songs "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Liberian Girl", which deal more with surrender than conquest or self- gratification." The Washington Post Rickard Harrington commented that on songs like "The Way You Make Me Feel," Jackson "sings the way he dances". "The Way You Make Me Feel" tied at number 22 on The Village Voices Pazz & Jop critics' poll of 1987.
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Jarry's woodcut of Ubu According to Jane Taylor, "the central character is notorious for his infantile engagement with his world. Ubu inhabits a domain of greedy self- gratification". Jarry's metaphor for the modern man, he is an antihero—fat, ugly, vulgar, gluttonous, grandiose, dishonest, stupid, jejune, voracious, greedy, cruel, cowardly and evil—who grew out of schoolboy legends about the imaginary life of a hated teacher who had been at one point a slave on a Turkish galley, at another frozen in ice in Norway and at one more the King of Poland. Ubu Roi follows and explores his political, martial and felonious exploits.
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Lombardi was a popular member of the British elite, who in her youth attracted the attention of a cadre of suitors. She was an enthusiast of the sporting life, an avid participant in the outdoor activities so favoured by the upper tier and titled members of society. The wealth and status enjoyed by this rarified group allowed them the means and leisure to engage in hunting and sailing and to lead lives dedicated to pleasure and self-gratification. Adapting the traditional clothing worn for the British sporting life to her modern vision of dress, Chanel found in Lombardi and her social set an inspirational template for design.
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The Emperor of Planet Bone, Femur is a short, fat, obnoxious reptilian creature who is constantly scheming of new ways to benefit himself. He is a very crafty, vile man with self-gratification as the only thing on his mind. Despite being self-indulgent, Femur cares for his planet and does indeed think of the citizens of Bone, and he willingly and paternally looks after the last surviving plant from Planet Jungle. Not a fighter by any means, Femur instead chooses to hide in the midst of battle, and in the crucial battle of Remora he led his troops in a retreat when things got rough.
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The Deadlys from Columbus, Ohio do a rendition of Bob Dylan's "On the Road Again" and the Retreds from Acton, Massachusetts try their hand at Chuck Berry's oft-covered "Johnny B. Goode," while the Buccaneers perform Jesse Hill's R&B; classic "Oop Poo Pah Doo," which includes a passage lifted from the Isley Brothers' "Nobody but You." The compilation also includes originally-written songs. "One More Time," is performed by the Reason Why, from Ocala, Florida. The last two songs, "Let's Go in '69" by the Customs Five and "Lollipop" by the Royal Coachmen, are each performed by bands of unknown origin and both feature titles which jokingly toy with hinted-at forms of forbidden self-gratification.
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In The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Bell contends that the developments of twentieth-century capitalism have led to a contradiction between the cultural sphere of consumerist instant self- gratification and the demand, in the economic sphere, for hard-working, productive individuals.Liu, Eric. How Boomers Left Us With an Ethical Deficit, The Atlantic, September 24, 2010 ("When Daniel Bell wrote of the cultural contradictions of capitalism – that a self-denying work ethic leads to the affluence that gives rise to self-gratifying play ethic that ends up corroding the affluence – he could also have described the life cycle of the Boomers.") Bell articulates this through his "three realms" methodology, which divides modern society into the cultural, economic, and political spheres.
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According to Rudra, the word, 'respect', connotes all sentiments and experiences which elevate and uplift the feeling of self-gratification, and the honour and homage paid by others whether by members of a clan or community or government. Vaidyanatha includes renunciation of worldly life and taking to asceticism, and Kalidasa adds trade, depositing of treasure, athletics, teaching, supremacy and fame as matters to be judged from this house. In general terms the 10th house refers to occupation, profession, means of livelihood, temporal honours, foreign travels, self-respect, knowledge and dignity. The analysis of this house too needs the study of the strength of the house, its lord, its occupants, its karakas and planets aspecting it, and also the different yogas bearing on it.
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Early in 1992 the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card reviewed reissues of several Diana Wynne Jones novels. He wrote concerning Witch Week: > Thus it is that underneath what seems to be rather low comedy—brooms that > demand to be taken riding by witches (and hoes and rakes and mops that can > be ridden, but behave more like mules and pigs than noble steeds); prankster > spells at about the level of magic spitwads—there is a continuous foundation > of truth. Children need powerful adult intervention to help them get control > of their powers and keep their powers from taking control of them. Instead > of using them for immediate self-gratification, the children instead have to > create and respect certain limits to avoid destroying themselves and others.
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The sexual sins of fornication, adultery and masturbation, as well as hatred, jealousy, drunkenness and other sins are considered to be sins of the heart as much as the body. It is thought that turning away from sexual sin is turning away from self-indulgence for the purpose of self gratification. Instead of turning to the desires of the flesh, the Orthodox Christian turns to the Holy Spirit, whose fruit is believed to be love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Talking about the Egyptian Gnostics related to his previous experience with them, Epiphanius of Salamis (310/320 – 403), a Byzantine Church Father and Doctor of the Church, states in his Panarion, or Medicine Chest: > They exercise genital acts, yet prevent the conceiving of children.
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In the 1920s, Ernst Krenek criticized a certain unnamed brand of contemporary music (presumably Schoenberg and his disciples) as "the self-gratification of an individual who sits in his studio and invents rules according to which he then writes down his notes". Schoenberg took offense at this remark and answered that Krenek "wishes for only whores as listeners" . Allen Shawn has noted that, given Schoenberg's living circumstances, his work is usually defended rather than listened to, and that it is difficult to experience it apart from the ideology that surrounds it . Richard Taruskin asserts that Schoenberg committed what he terms a "poietic fallacy", the conviction that what matters most (or all that matters) in a work of art is the making of it, the maker's input, and that the listener's pleasure must not be the composer's primary objective .
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Underworld page After centuries of militaristic discipline, having served as a Death Dealer of the vampire clan, Selene had long since developed a near-impervious, stoic external demeanor. Selene is not known for a sense of humor and is actually one of the most honest vampires in the franchise. She is also something of an idealist, believing in certain ideals as justice. Although a vampire for six centuries, Selene only really willingly interacted with other Death Dealers and has never fit in with her own kind (most of whom are too absorbed in their own pursuits of self-gratification) unlike them, Selene has never forgotten why she became a vampire and that they are at war with the Lycans, which leads her to consider them layabouts and dead weight, so she cares little for what they all think of her.
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Frequently the child who later becomes schizophrenic is either the dominant parent's favorite child, on whom the dominant parent depends for their self-esteem and self-gratification, or the family scapegoat who sits at the bottom of the family hierarchy, who is used as a lightning rod for discharging hostility within the family both by siblings and by the parents. All children have an internal need to see their parents in a positive light, as the child depends on the parents for survival, even if the parental behavior is destructive to the child's self-esteem. In most cases the parental internal images can be corrected if the individual manages to build up healthy, emphatic relationships outside the family nucleus later in life, such as at school, at work, etc. However, for pre- schizophrenics, this does not occur, so the internal parental images remain unchallenged.
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In Islam, the positive attitude towards genetic engineering is based on the general principle that Islam aims at facilitating human life. However, the negative view comes from the process used to create a Designer baby. Oftentimes, it involves the destruction of some embryos. Muslims believe that “embryos already has a soul” at conception. Thus, the destruction of embryos is against the teaching of the Qur’an, Hadith, and Shari’ah law, that teaches our responsibility to protect human life. To clarify, the procedure would be viewed as “acting like God/Allah”. With the idea, that parents could choose the gender of their child, Islam believes that humans have no decision to choose the gender, and that “gender selection is only up to God”. Social aspects also raise concern, as highlighted by Josephine Quintavelle, director of Comment on Reproductive Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, who states that selecting children's traits is “turning parenthood into an unhealthy model of self- gratification rather than a relationship”.
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