It is a tautology of corporate finance that growth in profits comes from the recursive reinvestment and compounding of past profits.

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After all, whether you accept Bacon's dictum or not, you have to agree with that simple tautology of governance: Power is power.

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There is something paternalistic in the tight tautology of the Samsung argument.

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But other than that tautology, what is it worth?

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This is where my own tautology kicks in.

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This is a transparent tautology.

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This is practically a tautology.

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And the fear that since secrets are not revealed, that they're not willing to discuss - of course, that would be a tautology, but anyway -that in fact, in these cases, there's no way to know whether the government is simply covering up mistakes and embarrassments in some circumstances, or whether those concerns are real.

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