Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.

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Wang was thin and angular, with the bearing of a self-made man.

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There is no such thing as a self-made man.

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The 86-year-old Mitchell, the son of a Greek immigrant, father of ten, and self-made man, ranks as the 347th richest man in the world.

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He is the classic self-made man, having started 40 years ago when a building boom led to a shortage of window frames.

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The ideal candidate would be a self-made billionaire who voted for Obama (and who may still like the man) but is now appalled at Obamanomics and willing to say so.

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Imagine a truly artificial, man-made heart, one that is completely self-contained and is able to adapt itself automatically to the body's needs--whether taking a nap or running for a bus.

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Such self-absorbed and narcissistic behavior fits the profile of a man who, even then, made no secret of his ambition to be President of the United States.

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Irish talk radio programs have been afire with discussions about the propiority of making a 66 year-old self-made tycoon of global proportions (Quinn was termed the 164th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2008) a national scapegoat, as a substantial minority of the population (especially those in border counties near his own) and some his former job holders avow.

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