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And it's even more true with IPOs that relate to "tech" and "IP" businesses where risk/reward is high, than to IPOs for traditional "old economy" businesses where even if they fail there will be substantial liquidation value, so the differency V notes doesn't surpise me.
Are Small Investors Irrational?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The differency between private and public beaureaucrats is that you get to choose the private ones.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Federal Government is Prohibiting Me from Becoming a Billionaire: 2009
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There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub.
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There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub.
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'There's a differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub.'
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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There is differency between a Grub & a But-terfly,
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There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub.
Coriolanus 1607
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_man_? 'inquires the speculator upon this phenomenon, and then comes the reply --' There's a differency between a grub and a butterfly, yet
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
bilby commented on the word differency
"MENENIUS: There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub. This Marcius is grown from man to dragon; he has wings; he's more than a creeping thing."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009