great speeches
a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)
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great speeches
From JK Rowlings' 2008 Harvard speech, this line:
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address - Admiral William H. McRaven
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Wow. Wow. Wow.
Incredible powerful message (incredible speech writing)—to those who stumbled on the wrong path and may ruin their future for not knowing the past.
The weight of history
wow.
what a speech.
what a delivery.
You are not special. You are not exceptional.
Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you... you’re nothing... See more
Contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card, despite every assurance of a certain corpulent purple dinosaur, that nice Mister Rogers and your batty Aunt Sylvia, no matter how often your maternal caped crusader has swooped in to save you... you’re nothing... See more
Bob Brown • Wellesley High grads told: "You're not special" - The Swellesley Report
