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 "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."
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Robert Orben |
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"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."
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Tom Brokaw |
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"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."
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Susan B Anthony |
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"School's out, Memories past, Don't ever doubt, Our friendship will last."
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Unknown |
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"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!"
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Louisa May Alcott |
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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
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B. F. Skinner |
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
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Aristotle |
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"Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars."
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Richard Halliburton |
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"There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning."
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Orrin Hatch |
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"Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated."
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Garry Trudeau |
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