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  • We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

    Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

  • We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

    Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

  • But as they go on mindlessly, menacing, mumbling the propaganda prayer: "remember 9/11 -- murder every moslem residing in THEIR land atop OUR oil" -- we begin to see that lie is all they're living for, self-consumed inside the myth of false reality, and we can only feel the saddest lonely sorry for them in neurotic hell, in heads and lives a hollow shell of empty television, nine-eleven nightmares, and their Bush betraying them.

    Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

    Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

  • We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

    Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

  • We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

    Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

  • It's the idea that if you meet a certain moral standard, you can be as self-consumed and self-centered as you please....not to mention racist and xenophobic.

    Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion 2010

  • That actually helps me as a writer, b/c it's easy to become self-consumed in this career.

    Running with the right pack Steven Barnes 2010

  • Plus, it bugs me how people tend to become so self-consumed at the holidays; choosing this particular time to drudge up all their disappointments and doubts.

    David Dean Bottrell: Sunny and the Rent Bush 2009

  • She comes off as ambitious and self-consumed, more like Paris Hilton than Clara Barton or Pearl S. Buck, both of whom she admired.

    Joe Peyronnin: A Rogue Review 2009

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