Valedictory
Speeches
"You people are
not
prepared.You are well-educated and you look cute, but that's not going
to cut it."
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"In all things be willing
to listen to people around you. None of us is really smart enough
to go it alone."
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"Life is rough for
everyone...
Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never
evenly
distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others."
columnist
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"In the real world,
dreams
do not come equpped with the magic wands of Cinderella stories."
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Men are sluggish, and
gravitate
towards sensuality; they fall into habits and routine, and run in ruts;
they carry the grain on one side of the horse, and a stone on the
other,
because their fathers did... There is nothing that men have been so
reluctant
to do as to think. They would go on pilgrimages, hang on hooks, accept
dogmas, bow down to power, but they have been slow to put forth their
powers
in an earnest effort after comprehension and enlargement.
Mark Hopkins,
President of the college,
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"People always get what
they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either
those
who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price
asked
them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things
at
bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use
grumbling.
Whatever price you are asked, you must pay."
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"My job is to bore you
and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare
you
for what is to come."
Nonember 13, 20003