It is a far cry from the original hacker ethos of making one cool thing, though perhaps still close to the hacker ideal of remaking the world.

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The corollaries of this American ethos were, on the one hand, an affinity for personal enterprise and industry and, on the other, a horror of dependency and contempt for anything that smacked of a mendicant mentality.

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One sees a truly modest man whose ethos of service to others is paramount.

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But these countries shared one common element: a strong Confucian family ethos.

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The ethos of this team, at least of late, is one of Teutonic efficiency.

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But in his public life, Kennedy was the kind of politician who seems absent from modern politics, one who was loyal to an ideological outlook -- an ethos, as Sobchak would say -- and who devoted his career toward fighting for that cause.

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Nunthorpe School is one of the most successful academically in the country, and Debbie Clinton believes that the leadership and ethos of a school make more of a difference than resources.

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