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Reducing it then to its proper level of a statement and no more, and annexing to it its self-appearing quality of self-servingness, and its incompetency to conclude one not served by it and a stranger to it, for aught that is shown, becomes clear, as we think.
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The fact is that it's impossible to write about India without confronting head-on the narrowness and self-servingness of some of our lingering colonial assumptions about the nature of Indian society.
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discounting the self-servingness of his talk and the general edginess and uncertainty that must have accompanied the months before In Search of Excellence was in print, sold millions of copies , moved him out of that office into bigger ones, sent him traveling as one of America's highest-paid speakers on the lecture circuit
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Rather, she'd be exposed to a mixture of bluster, scapegoating, rationalization, self-servingness, face-saving, self-delusion, self-pity, and outright lie.
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