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Commencement Speech Quotes

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life." (Wellesly High School commencement speech, "You Are Not Special", 6-12)
- David Mccullough

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.
- Garry Trudeau

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