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But Afghanistan will continue to provide just a fraction of those costs, despite past predictions that the country would eventually be moving closer to self-sustainment.

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2016

A right knowledge and apprehension of the past teaches humbleness and self-sustainment to the present.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Emerson said that The Nation had “breadth, variety, self-sustainment, and an admirable style of thought and expression.”—“I owe much to The Nation,” wrote Francis Parkman.

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford

No other talisman has the power; pride, self-sustainment, coldness, pleasure, nothing—nothing—but that divine word of Life which is life's soul!

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

True reverence lies rather in accepting unmurmuringly the order of things we find; in believing in the completeness and self sufficiency of nature and humanity, and that these contain within them elements of self-sustainment.

From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by Holyoake, George Jacob