Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Campus Life at the
Harvard University
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Man is what he believes.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Campus Life at
Ohio State University
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Kamala Harris’s words seem focus-grouped to please every imaginable constituency. The trouble is, at exactly the moment when communications staffers are satisfied they have pleased everybody, they have in fact left everybody frightened that the candidate is confused and hesitant. Strong leaders get in front of public opinion. Strong leaders make choices and accept consequences.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
~ Dieter Rams
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Midnight Trailer
The Agency – Paramount+
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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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