Though self-educated, Heaviside was a true genius. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
And so he was the best self-educated man I ever met. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2001] Reference
Self-taught, self-educated, and he loved his people. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornel West Reader] Reference
Calley was self-educated, Wells was a Rhodes scholar. From Wordnik.com. [Sony's Mr. Fixit] Reference
BECK: I have been trying -- I ` m a self-educated guy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2008] Reference
Churchill was more self-educated, and quite proud of it. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship] Reference
I ` m a self-educated alcoholic DJ, for the love of Pete. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2008] Reference
As a matter of fact, I think most of us are self-educated. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
He originated in a country town, and is a self-educated man. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
He -- he was a rather avid reader in his youth, self-educated. From Wordnik.com. [The Hitler of History] Reference
But he had the pluses and the minuses of the self-educated man. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship] Reference
This is a very self-educated woman with an unorthodox background. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Levitz,] Reference
Not bad for a self-educated country surveyor born to modest means. From Wordnik.com. [Never Mind Machiavelli] Reference
The three judges - a dentist, a professor and a self-educated poet. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
He is largely a self-educated man who has written six best sellers. From Wordnik.com. [Joan E. Dowlin: Maddow vs. Beck: I Gladly Invite the Comparison] Reference
In these two latter respects, especially, is the community self-educated. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
I mean, I ` m a self-educated man, and I try to figure things out myself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2008] Reference
Although self-educated, Mr. Carnegie is an author of world-wide reputation. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Studied at the Putnam School in Newburyport, but was largely self-educated. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
He spent most of the time in reading, being in this way really self-educated. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
Even his own father was largely self-educated — through his experience with Dask. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon's Kin]
I ` m a self-educated alcoholic DJ, for the love of Pete, and I can figure this out. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2008] Reference
He was largely self-educated, having terrorized the local school into submis - sion. From Wordnik.com. [Second Skin]
– Gypsy Joe Hess (1919-1988), prospector, self-educated philosopher and horse trader. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson] Reference
We remember the proprietor to have been a self-educated man: he had been to the museum at. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827] Reference
And the daughter was self-educated before going off to Bryn Mawr, the mother educated her. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Stan Gryskiewicz, November 5, 1998. Interview S-0016. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
She was articulate without being pompous, and apparently self-educated since the age of fifteen. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
Are college-bred men, as a class, superior in mental attainments and culture to self-educated men?. From Wordnik.com. [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition] Reference
Side by side with scholars, we have self-educated commoners who wrote both prose and, especially, poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
I wasn't familiar with Hoffer's work but quickly learned he was a self-educated longshoreman/philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Kaiser Greenland: A Self-Taught Philosopher] Reference
Stef Wertheimer is a gruff, 74-year-old, self-educated multi-millionaire who escaped the Nazis when he was a boy. From Wordnik.com. [Between The Lines Online: Investing In Peace] Reference
Well, he was self-educated, but unlike a lot of self-educated people he organized what he read, and was quite disciplined. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Lawrence Rogin, November 2, 1975. Interview E-0013. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
His family were humble and poor; he was self-educated, without address or polish, careless of forms, indifferent to society. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
It is one of the defects of the self-educated, that they generally imagine themselves much more learned than they really are. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
The two girls, one the self-educated, unknown child of the southern mountain side, the other the college-bred daughter of one of New. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
As a big (Bronx-born and longtime) Yankee fan myself, and as a self-educated classical music nutcase, I can definitely relate to that. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Imperato: The First Public Display of Passion (PDP) for Classical Music Award Goes to....] Reference
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