Rarely is federal legislation something other than a vehicle for government overreach and aggrandizement.

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Growing up in Kansas, he was taught to embrace humility and privacy and to shun self-aggrandizement.

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Perhaps one could even argue that his tendency toward self-aggrandizement reflects an extreme form of American individualism.

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Between the lines of self-aggrandizement, self-centeredness and self-doubt, one can see a true maturity developing in Larry Sanders.

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"Good luck with your career that is based on self-promotion and self-aggrandizement, " the magazine's editor wrote in an e-mail.

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He might be suffering from profound sadness, depression, despair, self aggrandizement and narcissism.

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Seeking humility rather than self- aggrandizement is the fourth step toward authenticity, and seeking humility always means cheerfully accepting a certain amount of painful humiliation all along the way.

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"He's done the kind of work that you want from your public servants, somebody who's driven not just by raw ambition, not just by an interest in personal aggrandizement, " Obama added.

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And as for any buyers who actually prefer the bigger, more fuel-squandering engine on the grounds of status and self-aggrandizement because 12 is greater than eight well, they are thought criminals and should be shunned.

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Is it always all about wealth aggrandizement?

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But expansion is not aggrandizement.

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This is the result of my unwillingness to provide publicity to those who really have nothing to offer of a serious nature and only stand to profit by those who buy into their self aggrandizement and feed the beast by giving it media attention of any kind.

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The faults that turned her colleagues in government and the public against her standoffishness, self-aggrandizement, a tendency to respond to every criticism with spin and wagon-circling, a pattern of rewarding loyalty rather than competence were all on display during her tenure at Hearst for anyone who was looking.

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