In the 1960s, an experiment was conducted where researchers gave this choice to a 4-year-old: “I am leaving for a few minutes to run an errand and you can have a marshmallow while I am gone. But if you don’t eat it, you can have two marshmallows when I return…”
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For most of the 1980s, the city of Chicago experienced a tremendous budget crisis. This caused city officials to cut back wherever they could—often in drastic ways…
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Thomas Edison was concerned about the way visitors to his office helped themselves to his expensive Havana cigars. So since he refused to lock them up, his secretary suggested he have cigars made from cabbage leaves and substitute them for the premium cigars…
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Peter Kreeft tells us that in the Latin rite for the burial of an Austrian emperor, the people carry the corpse to the door of the great monastic church. They strike the door and say: “Open…”
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Many years ago, a popular zoo in England had to pay visitors for articles stolen by monkeys. But what puzzled them was the item the animals consistently snatched: eyeglasses…
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The Prussian king Frederick the Great was widely known as an agnostic. By contrast, General Von Zealand, one of his most trusted officers, was a devout Christian…
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Mstislav “Slava” Rostropovich was a world-famous cellist. Since his exile from his native Russia in 1974, he lived in the West…
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Years ago, a large statue of Christ was erected high in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile. Called “Christ of the Andes,” this statue symbolizes a pledge…
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Former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau fought many duels with various rivals. On one occasion, he surprised one of his assistants by asking the attendant at a Paris railroad station for a one-way ticket to the duel…
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A New York family bought a ranch out west where they intended to raise cattle. So they packed up everything they owned and moved to their new home…
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