George Stigler in Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council The imagined gain on the Excel [spread]sheet can in no way compensate the long term devastation of such cultural 'self-suicide' (an ugly tautology, but as this is an American expression we may, in some parallel future, have to learn to live with... Peter Carey http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Carey_(novelist)&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFQBxtDinz91JvcmmnaRI05qmOt-g Taipei Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2009/04/21/2003441594&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEW-lppUqE9B8O_7KvRhOCwj_v-yw Apr 20, 2009
98383 130510 tautology As Nobel Laureate George Stigler pointed out, A reason can always be found for whatever we observe man to do," which "turns utility into a tautology."
Felicity Huffman in USA Today If it were called Housewives, I'd feel different,says Huffman. "But it's Desperate Housewives. On one hand it's an oxymoron, on the other hand, it's a tautology. ...... They're opposites, and they're the same. So I love the title."