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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Campus Life at
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Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.
~ Charles MacKay
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Michigan State University
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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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