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Every self-respecting dictator will decorate himself with grand military titles--but let us set these baubles aside and concentrate on dictatorships run by genuine career military officers.
But until this year, it was almost impossible to get any self-respecting adult to read them.
(Even after Royko said that no self-respecting fish would be wrapped in a Murdoch paper, "the Alien" refused to accept his resignation and kept reprinting his old columns.
“Every self-respecting mechanic,” said John Dewey, “Will call the parts of an automobile by their right names because that is the way to distinguish them.”
And finally, what about splinter groups, without which no self-respecting religious group would be complete?