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It takes most men five years to recover from a college
education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as
knowledge.
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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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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education
still continues.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be
something but to be someone.
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who
wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who
can measure values.
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination
to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he
can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy
were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is
taught.
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Put your future in good hands - your own.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
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There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are
already within you - just reach deep into yourself!
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where
there is no path and leave a trail.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline
of wonder.
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The one real object of education is to have a man in the
condition of continually asking questions.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into
windows.
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember
from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
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The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one
at the end of your own arm.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become
a man of value.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose
shade you do not expect to sit.
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At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My
hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold,
and wear sombreros.
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If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground,
then the university has failed you.
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The purpose of a liberal education is to make you
philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make
much money.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight
car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole
railroad.
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables
you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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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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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring
your own sunshine.
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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into
your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay,
with millions of thumbprints on it.
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We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of
the way things turn out.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a
second-rate version of somebody else.
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash
and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come
later.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has
been forgotten.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take
your eyes off your goal.
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Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation
which he should do even if he did not need the money.
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