Self-respect

Selbstachtung,/. self-respect, self-esteem, selbstandlg, a. Independent, self-dependent spontaneous. 

I know. Frozen drinks are bimbos. What is the cocktail version of a sexist remark The Lucy Colada has coconut cream in it, too, to keep your self-respect from returning anytime soon.The bartender served it in a Mexican beanpot-shaped goblet he floated the dark rum on the top of the cream-colored drink. You stir it in with a straw. It s dessert, but it s tasty. Passion fruit steels it up with acidity. 

The height of the "d" also has significance. A short d-stem height means you re very independent in the way you think and in the way you make decisions. If it s really, really tall, it means you have a high dose of pride, dignity, self-respect, or even vanity. People with tall skinny d-stems tend to dress very sharp. Tall skinny d-stems indicate a preoccupation with their "image." Yet the same person often doesn t give a flip about the criticism from just one individual. 

Thus we learn an important fact every self-respecting hermetic Hermaphrodite needs so the warmth of fire. This point made, then the discourse introduces the topic of a mythical bird, namely, the Phoenix [which] is unique it renews itself in the flames and rises revivified from the ashes. Nevertheless, explains Maier, the Phoenix is the Hermaphrodite with the mixed nature, of which the Philosophers speak it has a male nature and a female one, and one of these natures passes into the other by means of the addition of heat in this way, a woman becomes a man. Likewise, when a woman—Mona Lisa—becomes a goateed man, and specifically by means of the addition of [alchemical] heat, quite logically, File a chaud au queue ... 

The trade-off between science and spirituality is fair and square in this formulation. We need no longer invoke disembodied spirits to account for mental life. At the same time, we can retain the notion of free will that is the basis of our ethical codes, our laws, and our self-respect. Stretching the point, we can envisage a materialist spirituality. Because conscious states include poetic wonder, awe, reverence, and numinosity, and because we know all such attributes are aspects of brain activity, we can safely say that the brain is not only conscious, but is also a spiritual self standing in appropriate awe of its own complexity, creativity, and social conscience. 

Ill health, crime, degeneracy, and a low standard of living are the result not of the pharmacological effects of morphine but of the sacrifice of money, social position, food, and self-respect in order to obtain the drug. Inasmuch as narcotics are ordinarily obtained through illicit channels, the cost is high. It is difficult for a normal person to appreciate how completely the necessity and compulsion to maintain an adequate supply of the narcotic dominate the entire thought, action, and daily life of the addict. The major purpose of existence is to obtain sufficient narcotic for the addict s daily needs. 

The primary goal of the termination meeting is to terminate the employee compassionately and in a manner that maintains the employee s dignity and self-respect. This is better achieved by being direct and to the point by stating something such as, You have not achieved the performance objectives specified in our last meeting, so we have decided to terminate you from your position. ... 

Sulfur compounds are exceedingly interesting and useful systems. Their impressive versatility is the result of their complex chemistry, which any self-respecting organic chemist should be acquainted with. 

Esteem (self-respect and recognition/respect from others) and... 

This is an argument about the development of self-respect out of the class struggle, creating the necessary prerequisite for political action. As such it is quite unobjectionable, on the condition that one does not lose sight of the immediate economic goals that form the object of the struggles. The ex ante prospects of success in the struggle are indispensable, even Hex post it turns out to be a failure. ... 

When Rick, a cynical, American caf6-owner in Casablanca, helps his old flame and her husband, a French resistance leader, he regains his self-respect. 

Haber had met Weizmann a few years earlier in Paris. (Haber s son Hermann brought the two men together Hermann worked for Weizmann s brother-in-law.) At first, Weizmann regarded the man from Berlin as a political and ideological foe. He felt that Haber was lacking in any Jewish self-respect. He had converted to Christianity and had pulled all his family with him along the road to apostasy. To Weizmann s surprise, however, he found Haber extremely affable and even interested in Weizmann s campaign to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. 

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