on oneself
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“Working on oneself is complicated—you have biases towards what the results would be that are cognitively difficult.”
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2022
Money is simply best spent on oneself, or really anything other than ending world hunger.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022
Through inner reflection on oneself, one can then understand the nature of the world.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The experience will be about winding up and in on oneself.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2012
One must, he felt, be hard on oneself, and on one's guard against the vanity of newfangled ideas and against the enervating effect of civilization.
From Seven Icelandic Short Stories by Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson
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