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KV

Kurt Vonnegut

Hobart and William Smith Colleges Commencement 1974, 1974

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."

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CW

Chris Waddell

Middlebury College Commencement 2011, 2011

"It's not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you."

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DFW

David Foster Wallace

Kenyon College Commencement 2005, 2005

"The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about."

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HAW

Henry A. Wallace

Connecticut College Commencement 1943, 1943

"It's all baloney to talk about this younger generation winning the peace. We won't come to power for 20 years. The same generation that got us into this mess has got to get us out of it. What really matters is not what new thoughts we kids are thinking but what new thoughts you older guys are thinking."

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JW

John Walsh

Wheaton College Commencement 2000, 2000

"Do one thing at a time. Give each experience all your attention. Try to resist being distracted by other sights and sounds, other thoughts and tasks, and when it is, guide your mind back to what you're doing."

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AW

Abby Wambach

Barnard College Commencement 2018, 2018

"You were never Little Red Riding Hood. You were always the wolf."

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JW

Jesmyn Ward

Tulane University Commencement 2018, 2018

"Real success requires step after step after step after step. It requires choice after choice."

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EW

Elizabeth Warren

Suffolk University Commencement 2016, 2016

"Don't be so focused in your plans that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. The most exciting parts of your life aren't even on your radar screen."

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DW

Denzel Washington

Dillard University Commencement 2015, 2015

"Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big, but remember, dreams without goals are just dreams. And they ultimately fuel disappointment."

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BW

Bill Watterson

Kenyon College Commencement 1990, 1990

"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."

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AW

Ari Weinzweig

University of Michigan Commencement 2015, 2015

"The way we spend our days is the way we spend our lives."

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RW

Ruth Westheimer

Trinity College Commencement 2004, Trinity College Commencement, 2004, 2004

"To live life at its fullest you have to have the chutzpah to accept challenges."

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JW

Joss Whedon

Wesleyan University Commencement 2013, 2013

"If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. That will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better."

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CW

Colson Whitehead

Connecticut College Commencement 2017, 2017

"In some ways, you've always been a creature of chaos. The complications of Act II, which will tip all you have been before into chaos, have been set up and abetted by really clever foreshadowing in Act I, by all those slippery you's over the years."

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BW

Bradley Whitford

University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2004, 2004

"You've got to want to do whatever you want to do more than you want to be whatever you want to be. Want to write more than you want to be a writer. Want to heal more than you want to be a doctor."

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EW

Elie Wiesel

Dartmouth College Commencement 2006, 2006

"I see the otherness of the other, which appeals to me. In fact, it is the otherness of the other that makes me who I am."

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PW

Pharrell Williams

New York University Commencement 2017, 2017

"Talk about your accomplishments. Be humble, but not too humble. Don't be invisible."

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RW

Russell Wilson

University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement, 2016, 2016

"Potential just means you haven't done it yet."

3 citações