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[In this auction we may expect the article to be sold to] "the most eager buyer at a price which is just about the highest he is willing to pay, for in this case the most eager buyer does not know what prices the other buyers are willing to give [and] ... each buyer fear that someone may slip in ahead of him.
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   There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

William Angus McIlvanney

— 1985  The Big Man, ch.1.

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America had come to the rescue of Korea's "troubled banks". The auction of commercial bank assets was an obvious fraud.

michel chossudovsky

— The Recolonization of Korea, Chapter 22, p. 340

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I overheard backstage . . . Did someone just auction off Emilio and me? That was scary!

gloria estefan

— comment to audience at "Miami Rocks for [Hurricane Katrina] Relief" concert on September 30, 2005

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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.


— H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Series (1919).

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America had come to the rescue of Korea's "troubled banks". The auction of commercial bank assets was an obvious fraud.


— The Recolonization of Korea, Chapter 22, p. 340

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