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  • n  an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities

  • In American romantic comedies like Knocked Up, Waitress and Juno, a woman's unwanted pregnancy is the springboard for sexual love, self-knowledge and, as she comes to term, the .
  • Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony.
  • He wanted to give a nuanced reading of a mutant steeped in self-knowledge.
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  • Michiko Kakutani in International Herald Tribune
    In Bergman's films, "this world is a place where faith is tenuous; communication, elusive; and self-knowledge, illusory," Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times Magazine in a profile of the director in 1983.
  • Jamie Lee Curtis in Gulf Daily News
    I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I'm stronger, I'm smarter in every way, I'm so much less crazy than I was then,says Curtis, who is...

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