Don't brag about it.

Don't boast too much.

You bang, don't be above yourself!

I've had enough of your boasts.

He boasted of having won the first prize.

I don't think I've done anything to sound off about.

This may sound like blowing my own horn, but ...

He was quite a quiet man, and he wasn't a boastful person, she said.

I don't flatter myself... that I'm an expert in human behavior, Mr. Ambassador.

Billions of dollars are spent every year, all over the globe, on these charlatans.

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And in 1930 greatgrandfather boasted in front of stone cutters whose quarry had just been closed and they beat him so badly he died.

Get off the soapbox. Save that for the Tribune.

This one thinks that she is the Archangel Gabriel.

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It is reminiscent of Charles Dickens's Mr. Gradgrind facts, facts, facts and we all know where Mr. Gradgrind ended up.

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LONDON I don t mean to sound as though I am bragging, but the last time the Conservative Party won an election in Britain was 1992, when John Major was Prime Minister. The chairman of the party at the time, running the winning campaign, was me.

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One might also ask what had become of the much touted values of peace and respect for international law.

And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down the kettledrum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge.

Later, the policemen of Leigu Squadron also stopped the vehicles entering the controlled road segment temporarily, and asked the vehicles to form a line to make a way for the incoming 120 emergency ambulance.

The North Korean bomb, estimated at four kilotons, does not come anywhere near the magnitude of the atomic bombs of 15 21 kilotons that America dropped on Japan 64 years ago. Indeed, this vainglorious attempt by Kim Jong il reminds Koreans of the mother bullfrog in Aesop s Fables who puffed herself out to imitate an ox.

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It is impossible not to hear in such nonsense the cocksure drumbeat of the Money Power, which has never failed to identify the public interest with its own. For 50 years after the Great Depression of the 1930 s, the Money Power was held to account by the countervailing power of government.

That action is typical of some developed countries, which, while giving with great fanfare some assistance to the developing countries, quietly take away even more through harmful trade and economic policies.

and fully seasoned, ready to cook marinated catfish fillets. The United States is also the main producing country of surimi, a fish paste, formed into fish and non fish products, and it supplies more than half of the world total.

That is how it should be India is a fractious democracy, China is not. But, as an Indian, I do not wish to pretend that we can compete in the global growth stakes with China.

Hamas leader Khaled Meshal s boastful rhetoric cannot hide the fact that Hamas s military power has been dealt a devastating blow. But, unless Israel is ready to pay an exceptionally high price in terms of its international standing by occupying Gaza and destroying its entire military hierarchy and arsenal, Hamas can still claim victory, having survived yet another onslaught by Israel s colossal military machine.

NEW YORK The flags are already flying, from Holland to Argentina, from Cameroon to Japan. Soon the drums will be beating, the trumpets blowing.

It came about spontaneously through their collective wisdom.

It serves you right.

Recite monologues.

PROPOSALS ON SELF DESTRUCTION, SELF NEUTRALIZAION AND SELF DEACTIVATION

I seem to slip into reveries.

free to mold their own destiny.

The occult?

To do whatever we like... anything at all.

Free Trade, Free Labor, Free Growth

The global economic collapse of 2007 2008 discredited rational expectations economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention. The issues have not changed much since their argument began in the Great Depression of the 1930 s.

They're self sufficient.

Food self sufficiency.