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The most sophisticated and intelligent people I know are the ones willing to challenge their thinking and admit there's more to learn.

Don't miss your life on the way to work.

Pick what you think is the best path and just move forward.

Service is the rent we pay for living on God's Earth.

In just a few moments, you will take an oath — not to a person, not to a political party, but to the Constitution.

The power of America's military not only rests on our technology, our weaponry, our hardware. It rests on the character and the resolve of our people.

As officers, you are about to be granted one of the greatest privileges and most sacred duties that our nation can bestow: to lead American service members.

The work that is called for, that we must do, has no expiration date. It is the construction of our more perfect union, and that job will never, ever be completed.

Every day, every year, and for every graduating class, there is a choice to be made: those who embrace liberty and freedom for all, those who won't, or those who are indifferent. Only the first do the work.

America is the only country in the world founded on an idea. Not a joke. The idea was: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

You're the most progressive, best-educated, least prejudiced, most open generation in American history.

Your challenge as a leader is to treat every single person with equal dignity and respect, and find ways to unlock everyone's talent.