Content tagged consequence

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Stupidly expensive “audiophile” products … like the $485 volume knob and the $1500 power cord (“apparently the miles of lowly aluminium high … gulfstream/1873

Dahlia Lithwick is reporting on Sam Alito’s confirmation hearing. “There are, it seems, better and worse ways to game your Supreme Court confirmation … gulfstream/1936

Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, argues against tenure. “What does tenure do? It distorts people’s effort so that they face strong incentives … gulfstream/2251

Quotes Collected

Why did Western Europeans come to dominate the world? Historian Paul M. Kennedy, in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987), says western Europe … quotes/130

A man who cannot be acquainted with me taxes me, looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end---not … emerson/31

When they were levelling the ground for building the Kameyama palace, there was a great mound where innumerable large snakes were clustered together. … kenko/27