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one is doing or intending to do so, in order to avoid "tempting fate" after making a favorable prediction or boast, or a declaration concerning one's...

A Place of One's Own is a 1945 British film directed by Bernard Knowles. An atmospheric ghost story based on the 1940 novel of the same title by Osbert...

"A Yurt of One's Own" is the ninth episode of the sixth season of the American television comedy drama Shameless, an adaptation of the British series...

stratagems. Mask one's real goals from those in authority who lack vision by not alerting them to one's movements or any part of one's plan. When the enemy...

superheroes: "One of the things that impressed me was this distinction between the idea of doing something for a reason versus doing something for one’s own sake...

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed is a 2023 American comedy film, written, directed, and starring Joanna Arnow. It also stars Scott...

Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as identifying the act of "taking [one's] sex organ into one's [own] mouth" as one of three ways to commit "relations with oneself." Artemidorus...

other people doing the same thing" she could dance in her "own space" on her "own terms", wanting "to make a song called 'Dancing On My Own'" but still...

although one is the center of one's own world, one is not the center of everyone else's. This tendency is especially prominent when one does something atypical...

produced episode of Season 4. "Something You Can Do with Your Finger" originally aired in the United States on Comedy Central on July 12, 2000. In the episode...

examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings. In psychology, the process of introspection relies on the observation of one's mental state,...

betterment of society ("subordinating one's own desires to others") or improvement of oneself ("following one's own path"). According to anthropologist...

idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure;...

responsible for doing something wrong, their action is blameworthy. By contrast, when someone is morally responsible for doing something right, it may be...

Something Rotten! is a musical comedy with a book by John O'Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick and music and lyrics by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Set in...

change as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Freedom is often associated with liberty and autonomy in the sense of "giving oneself one's own laws"...

An exploit (from the English verb to exploit, meaning "to use something to one’s own advantage") is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or a sequence...

indeterminate nature of one's own inevitable death—one never knows when or how it is going to come. However, this indeterminacy does not put death in some...

Something Borrowed is a 2011 American romantic comedy film based on Emily Giffin's 2005 book of the same name, directed by Luke Greenfield, starring Ginnifer...

sufferings present in their own life, and that one's own life is something that one has an indisputable right to. Schopenhauer does not see suicide as a kind...