Our education is under attack — what do we do? Fight back.
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Sandra Soto
University of Arizona Commencement 2010, 2010
Do not let any obstacles — personal, political, or economic — impede you. And once you've fulfilled your dreams, know that that is when you're liable to confront the greatest challenges. But so, too, may you derive the privilege of service.
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Michael Oren
Brandeis University Commencement 2010, 2010
Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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Jeffrey Sachs
Connecticut College Commencement 2010, 2010
Adversity is an opportunity. Adversity will make you stronger. Adversity will mold you into the person that you're meant to be.
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Drew Brees
Loyola University New Orleans Commencement 2010, 2010
I realized my mission in life was to learn more, not earn more.
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Julianna Margulies
Sarah Lawrence College Commencement 2010, 2010
I do not wish you an easy path. Instead, I wish you a path filled with impediment and ambiguity and struggle and joy.
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Julia Keller
Dominican University Commencement 2010, 2010
Be different, be smart, but most of all accept that heavy torch from me and my generation: be the future. Believe that within you is the ability to always make it a better place than this one.
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Porochista Khakpour
Desert Academy Commencement 2010, 2010
Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your progress but your confidence, and will to break the inertia of fear and doubt.
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Douglas Smith
DeVry University Commencement 2010, 2010
If no one would give me a chance as a reporter, I should take a chance. If no one would give me an opportunity, I would have to make my own opportunity.
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Anderson Cooper
Tulane University Commencement 2010, 2010
If you err, may it be for too much audacity, and not too little. For you really are enough.
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Sue Monk Kidd
Scripps College Commencement, 2010, 2010
Everyone is born an original, but sadly, most die copies.
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Cory Booker
Pitzer College Commencement 2010, 2010
Do something you're not ready to do. In pushing through that discomfort you'll learn a lot more about yourself. You'll learn to do something you didn't think you could do, or you'll learn where your limits are. Either is valuable.
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Marissa Mayer
Illinois Institute of Technology Commencement 2009, 2009