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This sort of line can be viewed as either trite and tautological, or dangerously blinkered.
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Hindsight reveals the tautological reality that crazy people murder, so why not pre-empt them?
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It would be more accurate, albeit tautological, to say that rare earths are indispensable for those technologies that require rare earths.
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To me this seems pretty simple and obvious, perhaps even tautological.
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This is all true, but mostly tautological: Am I wrong to consider a lack of permits to be evidence of an effort not to issue permits?
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However, the assumption of self-interest is not entirely tautological.
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That's no doubt true, but it is tautological to observe that "Democratic partisans" are partisan and nearly so to point out that "fervent Obama admirers" are more than willing to make excuses for their man.
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There is quite simply no way short of theft that one can amass wealth without saving first, so the tautological reality that says the rich tend to save explains to the mildly sentient in our midst how to grow wealthy in the first place.
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Furthermore, it's tautological to say that big businesses in the U.S. employ a great deal of workers for being large, which means it would be foolhardy to require them to subsidize lower tax rates for firms in possession of prospects that are far less certain.
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But this is tautological.
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