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Bundoora, Victoria
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Campus Life at La Trobe University
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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Violence is glorified, commodified, and endlessly recycled. The same society that censors books sells bullets by the box. Music, films, and news alike turn killing into entertainment, then wonder why empathy has eroded. This is not an argument for censorship but for conscience. Art shapes appetite. When cruelty becomes content, compassion vanishes.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Americans don’t just disagree on policy anymore. They disagree on reality. They disagree on who and what deserves trust. They are, in measurable statistical terms, living in different countries while sharing the same zip codes.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Could this be the end of the West as we know it? | The Economist
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The 10 largest companies on the 1960 Fortune 500 list via CNN Money:
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The radicalization of college-educated Americans who have begun to live the unpleasant realities of their less privileged compatriots—who can hardly afford rent, much less to buy a house and start a family—is an encouraging turn. They could form part of a broader social movement that finally addresses our deepest problems instead of dissolving them in electronic bile. A professional class that identifies with America’s multitudes of have-nots and votes on that basis would be a powerful force for greater equality and opportunity.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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