"The minds of men always dwell more on bad luck. They accept ordinary prosperity as a matter of course. Misfortunes arrest their attention and remain in their memory." William Graham Sumner, Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals (1906). That 100-

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Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Another great Santayana quote from Epstein: “humanitarians have an intense hatred of mankind as it is.” Epstein then continues Santayana's thought: “which is of course why they are always so hard at work trying to change it.” It's a poignant point that every progressive and reformer

> Request to EWTN: Bring back the Benedict Groeschel audio library! pic.twitter.com/6OyiX4YqnC [http://t.co/6OyiX4YqnC] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) August 24, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/statuses/503672770073731073]

But then, what else would I talk about? > "Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible." - Sallust > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) August 20, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/statuses/502222844580089856]

I took the family to Cedar Point on Friday. We had a great time. It got off to a rough start: Key roller coasters were out of service for the first part of the day. It was highly frustrating. But I think the humidity and threat of thunderstorms kept the

> If you ask someone where he comes from & he answers "Europe",odds are he is Romanian or Bulgarian.A German wd answer "Germany".Same Fr/I/Sp > — Nassim N. Taleb Ù† (@nntaleb) August 24, 2014 [https://twitter.com/nntaleb/statuses/503641069314392065]

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