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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Campus Life at
Campus Life at
UC Berkeley
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Man is what he believes.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Scott Bessent was born
on this day in 1962
Scott Bessent — the American investor and government official who has served as the 79th United States Secretary of the Treasury since January 2025 — was born on this day — August 21, 1962 — in Conway, South Carolina.
He is a graduate of Yale University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
Prior to his appointment to the Cabinet, Bessent had a four-decade career in global finance, notably serving as the Chief Investment Officer for Soros Fund Management and later founding the macro hedge fund Key Square Group. He also served as an adjunct professor at Yale University, teaching economic history and the history of hedge funds.
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Campus Life at
Griffith University
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It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Campus Life at
Wright State University
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That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
~ Haruki Murakami
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