Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.
~ Banksy
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Monthly Archives: July 2025
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I can’t conceive of my vocation or obligations as living separate from my desires, because my vocation and obligations are the realization of my desires.
~ Salvador Dali
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The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
Campus Life at the
University of Southern California
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University of New South Wales
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Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Howard Lutnick was born
on this day in 1961
Howard Lutnick — the American businessman and government official who has served as the United States Secretary of Commerce since January 2025 — was born on this day — July 14, 1961 — in Jericho, New York.
He is a graduate of Haverford College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
Prior to his appointment to the Cabinet, Lutnick was the long-time Chairman and CEO of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald and the BGC Group. He gained national recognition for his leadership and rebuilding of the firm following the September 11 attacks. During the transition to the current administration, he also served as the co-chair of the presidential transition team.
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To meet with the prophet during a plague, certain protocols must be followed. It’s a gray spring morning in Salt Lake City, and downtown Temple Square is deserted, giving the place an eerie, postapocalyptic quality. The doors of the silver-domed tabernacle are locked; the towering neo-Gothic temple is dark. To enter the Church Administration Building, I meet a handler who escorts me through an underground parking garage; past a security checkpoint, where my temperature is taken; up a restricted elevator; and then, finally, into a large, mahogany-walled conference room. After a few minutes, a side door opens and a trim 95-year-old man in a suit greets me with a hygienic elbow bump.
~ McKay Coppins via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
University of New Mexico
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
~ Ernest Hemingway