great speeches

a collection of wonderful speeches (many of them commencement speeches)

Gotta give credit to NYC Mayor Eric Adams for this phenomenal speech on Israel. It’s a few minutes that everyone should watch.

Eli Klein

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pphoebe

MLK vibes from nyc mayor in the wake of Hamas attack on Israel

The power of words. One of the best speeches ever. A must listen by Mohammed Qahtani

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simon

Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project

On Being onbeing.org

sari

"Creativity in Management"

John Cleese jamesclear.com

sari

memos

interesting memos written for an internal audience - a company, a campaign, an organization - that shed light on how people really think inside institutions.

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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

Josh Wolfe

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pphoebe

wow. what a speech. what a delivery.

"The Danger of a Single Story"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie jamesclear.com

sari

Douglas Murray: What It Means to Choose Life

thefp.com

phoebe

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.”

alex