One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Daily Archives: December 17, 2025
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Clemson University
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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The United States has cultivated a culture that prizes attention over empathy, fame over purpose, grievance over grace. The modern gunman doesn’t seek anonymity but immortality. He has learned that, in the land of viral violence, even murder guarantees an audience.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Five British Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
Campus Life at the
University of West Georgia
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
~ Ludwig von Mises
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Loughborough University
Campus Trivia Night
America’s 10 largest companies in 1980
The 10 largest companies on the 1980 Fortune 500 list via CNN Money:
- Exxon
- General Motors
- Mobile
- Ford
- Texaco
- Chevron
- Gulf Oil
- International Business Machinges
- General Electric
- Amoco
Between 1970 and 1980 – two companies dropped out of the top 10: Chrysler and ITT Industries.
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