great speeches

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

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 speci... See more

Bob Brown • Wellesley High grads told: "You're not special" - The Swellesley Report

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"This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace

jamesclear.com jamesclear.com

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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

x.com

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

"Enough"

John Bogle jamesclear.com

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Commencement Address

Jacinda Ardern harvardmagazine.com

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"Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love"

Bill Gurley jamesclear.com

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Love this speech by Bill Gurley - one of the common things across top professionals like Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer, etc was that they studied everything they could find about their field, they were masterful students first.

Fred Rogers unforgetable Emmy Award Speech ever -1997

youtube.com

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

onbeing.org

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2024 Commencement Address by Roger Federer at Dartmouth

youtube.com

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ADL's Never Is Now 2019 | ADL International Leadership Award Presented to Sacha Baron Cohen

Anti-Defamation League youtube.com

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