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With no leadership structure to dismantle, the message of the Occupy movement stands poised to self-perpetuate, impervious to traditional routes of attack.
Matthis Chiroux: The Wisdom and Power of a Leaderless Resistance Matthis Chiroux 2011
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We're not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress.
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• For 35 years, pour billions of dollars into vested institutions aiming to self-perpetuate via a perennial "war on cancer" featuring intense and costly treatments, which, according to a GAO report, failed to substantively increase actual survival rates once you factor in reductions in lung cancer deaths thanks to smoking cessation
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Cities self-perpetuate the mind-set that made them.
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Immortals could also use this trick to self-perpetuate themselves, inventing their own children and gradually assuming their identity, then killing their parents off.
Security Matters: How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity 2008
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Without compliance to these two Articles in the UN Charter, the world will descend into a state of lawlessness, violence and disorder which will self-perpetuate itself.
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If people can slip into roles of viciousness and/or victimhood after a day or two, do unequal starting points and an unlevel playing fail in society self-perpetuate?
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Question: What is it in the psyches of many gay men that allow for the stereotype of the "drama queen" to emerge and self-perpetuate?
Drama Queens gay person of color 2007
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Question: What is it in the psyches of many gay men that allow for the stereotype of the "drama queen" to emerge and self-perpetuate?
Archive 2007-09-01 gay person of color 2007
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Various other minorities have traditionally, and to this day, still suffer discrimination at the hands of a canonical system that sets out to self-perpetuate.
THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNET AND VIRTUAL WORLDS ON WRITTEN TEXT AND THEATRE 2007
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