“I’m not a great fan of blood. I don’t mind people’s having it, I just don’t enjoy seeing them wear it.” — Alan Alda, College of Physicians and Surgeons commencement speech (1979-05-16)
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“If it’s true that this is the best time of your life, if you have already lived or are now living at this age the best years, or if the next few turn out to be the best, then you have my condolences. Because you’ll want to remain here, stuck in these so-called best years, never maturing, wanting only to look, to feel and be the adolescent that whole industries are devoted to forcing you to remain.” — Toni Morrison, Commencement Address to the Wellesley College Class of 2004 (2004-05-28)
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“It is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“The fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“You stumble out of a store, run smack into the person that later becomes your spouse and the parent of your children. It was fate, you say, a cosmic coincidence. No, it was one of a hundred chance encounters that you had that day, and you chose to make it a fateful one.” — Bill Bullard, “For the Faculty”, Commencement 2007, San Francisco University High School
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“The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge; it requires no accountability, no understanding.” — Bill Bullard, “For the Faculty,” Commencement 2007, San Francisco University High School
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“We seem to have no time for stillness. What is this desperate need we have to fill the emptiness with iPods, Blackberries, cell phones, computers, video games, and television?” — Jessica Lange, Commencement Speech at Sarah Lawrence College, 2008
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“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.” — David Foster Wallace, Commencement speech, 2005 graduating class, Kenyon College
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