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Once married, all they talk about is their houses and their spouses and their work, and their work, only if you don't work with them and they can self-aggrandize; it's enough to drive you batty.
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A brief opportunity for Wall Street transparency is evaded and the Masters of the Corporatocracy and their Wealth & Power is left to self-aggrandize.
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I'll grant you that it does raise some questions about the Clinton campaign's willingness to plow across racially sensitive topics in an effort to self-aggrandize.
Poll: Obama Losing West Virginia Primary By More Than Two To One 2009
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Once married, all they talk about is their houses and their spouses and their work, and their work, only if you don't work with them and they can self-aggrandize; it's enough to drive you batty.
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Without the left, the state and its officials self-aggrandize and creep towards autocracy and fascism.
Robert Fuller: Bridging Left and Right: A Foundation for Transpartisan Politics 2008
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You are not educating that tool, all you are doing is helping him self-aggrandize.
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For future note for all readers of any blogs … anytime ANYONE starts a statement with “the problem with (a certain group of people)” immediately assume the person is a hack and only responds to self-aggrandize … attemtping to encapsulate an individual by attacking the larger group in general (and somewhat meandering) ways is ignorant and in poor form.
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Narcissistic tendencies to self-aggrandize are not unique to the United States, of course.
Diagnosing the U.S. 'national character': Narcissistic Personality Disorder' 2006
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Chicago Tribune in 1995: "Celebrity authors eager to reveal all, self-aggrandize and wear their royalties in expensive attire ...."
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I'm the guy in the video and I understand you're hesitancy with the video - but I didn't make this video to self-aggrandize.
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