It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
From Paul Tsongas
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.
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