Examples
“What matters for our purposes is the way in which it explicitly reconceptualizes a theory of managed consumption as one of managed excess.”
Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
“First of all, her first name for all intents and purposes, is Diva.”
“And using the Triangle Shirtwaist Company as any sort of example for modern purposes is rather absurd.”
“It sounds to me like the Brits have strayed away from one of the main purposes of the Scouts: teaching youth valuable life skills and RESPONSIBILITY, including the responsibility that comes from carrying/using a TOOL that can possibly be used as a weapon.”
“Now that a legalization for ALL purposes is on the ballot, the same old tired nonsense is being trotted out.”
The Huffington Post: Norman Goldman: Let's Party Like It's 1996!
“This would not be so upsetting were it not for the fact that sports stadiums have been accepted as a "public use" for eminent domain purposes, so that government can take people's homes from them in order to build these stadiums -- hardly the sort of thing the authors of the Fifth Amendment considered a public use.”
Sports Stadiums, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Remember the 'fair use' doctrine gives consumers the right to publish parts of normally copyrighted material for certain purposes (such as public discussion, academic work etc.).”
Hayekians vs. Stiglitzians, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Ironically, however, one of the main purposes of their fiscal imbalance measure is to support privatization.”
The $44 trillion shortfall, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But you can hold it through a Fideicomiso. which for all practical purposes, is the same as ownership. gpkisner”
“Then perhaps one of art's principal purposes is now to provide such examination.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music
Lists
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Prosie: Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ad...
(Given Saturday, March 4, 1865, Washington, D.C.)
Fellow-Countrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended a...with all nations, among ourselves, a just and lastin..., cherish, achieve, to do all, for his widow and..., to care for him w..., to bind up the na..., let us strive on ..., with firmness in ..., with charity for all and 169 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
Tweets
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brtom Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or soothe, I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has, and be as regardless of observation. Walt Whitman, Preface 1855
I believe in those winged purposes ... Song of Myself Dec 9, 2006