St. Augustine
Americannoun
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Arendt had written her dissertation on St. Augustine, who held curiosity to be dangerous, often tempting one to sin because of an insatiable hunger for one sight after another.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The five-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, 77, listed his St. Augustine dwelling Feb. 1, having purchased the picturesque home for $725,000 in 2012 and completely custom built it, Realtor.com can exclusively reveal.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
Xi Jinping, presiding over the world’s second-largest economy, has shown the opposite: that prosperity alone cannot satisfy what St. Augustine called humanity’s “restless heart.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
As a sophomore at St. Augustine, Stewart piled up 85 tackles and 20 sacks.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025
This was first pointed out by St. Augustine.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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