To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1928 (via footballisradical)
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
Keith Chen on his “The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets”: “strong correlation between how a language treats future-time reference (FTR), and the choices that speakers of those languages make when thinking about the future.”
“Pageviews are nice, but if you can drive revenue other ways, go for it.”