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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
Seneca The Younger / Philosopher
Commencement
Effort
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
Tacitus / Historian
Commencement
Ends
Zealous
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Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.
Jay Leno / Comedian
Careers
Commencement
Hard
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Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.
Denzel Washington / Actor
Commencement
Experiments
Steps
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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
Philippa Gregory / Novelist
Commencement
Ends
Fins
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So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
Jim Carrey / Actor
Graduation
Commencement
Convocation
Path
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The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.
Pamela Druckerman / Writer
Encouraging
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Commencement Day has a sobering finality in that it's the end of the prescribed path.
Steve Blank / Entrepreneur
Commencement
Finality
Prescribed
Sobering
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The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.
Gautam Adani / Business Tycoon
Coal
Commencement
Events
Milestone
Mining
Event
Sector
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith / Economist
Commencement
Culture
Manifestation
Speech
Thinking
Satisfactory
Wholly
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A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.
Paul Tsongas / Former United States Senator
Life
Commencement
Inspire
Joy
Melancholy
Life Time Joy
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I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.
Mike O'malley / Actor
Commencement
Guts
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My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.
Stephanie Ruhle / Editor
Commencement
Promises
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I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.
James Madison / 4Th U.s. President
New Year
Commencement
Enjoy
Years
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Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.
Gustave Flaubert / Writer
Bourgeois
Commencement
Hatred
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney J. Harris / Journalist
Caught
Commencement
Keeping Promises
Promise
Speakers
Summer
Winter
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You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / Novelist
Commencement
Disaster
Evil
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I never expected to join the ranks of commencement speakers, especially at my alma mater. I had a tough time there, left eagerly, and returned rarely.
Stephanie Ruhle / Editor
Commencement
Speakers
Eagerly
Join
Ranks
Returned
Tough Time
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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.
Garry Trudeau / Cartoonist
Graduation
Belief
College
College Students
Commencement
Outgoing
Speech
Students
World
Were
Invented
Largely
Properly
Released
Speeches
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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.
Paul Tsongas / Former United States Senator
Commencement
Fine
Halls
Lying
Myth
Promise
Worry
Be Happy
Beyond
Lie
Holds
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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben / Writer
Education
Funny
Graduation
Caps
Ceremony
Commencement
Identical
Individuality
Senior
Students
Dressed
Event
Speaker
Tells
Thousands
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The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
Charles Sturt /
Believe
Climate
Commencement
Fearful
Remarkable
Wales
Years
Droughts
New South Wales
Subject
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From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
Robert James Graves /
Commencement
Disease
Effects
Observation
Ought
Persevere
Progress
Sickness
Students
Witness
Daily
Studies
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
Nat Turner /
Confidence
Commencement
Treatment
Mr
Cause
Complain
Master
In Fact
Joseph
Placed
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The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.
Joe Slovo / South African Politician
Activity
Commencement
Consistent
Minorities
Preparation
Southern
Advanced
Africa
Either
Experiencing
Guerilla
Racial
Regular
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Student loan debt is certainly not a fitting topic for a commencement speech, but it's an issue we must confront - not only for thousands of college graduates who deserve a fair shot, but also for our economy.
Dianne Feinstein / United States Senator
Commencement
Deserve
Fitting
Graduates
Loan
Confront
Topic
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The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.
William Barr /
Commencement
Core
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Innocence
Investigation
Liberty
Presumption
Civil
Civil Liberty
Criminal
Official
System
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
Angela Duckworth /
Accomplished
Commencement
Middle School
Wiser
Speeches
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How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
Confucius / Philosopher
Break
Commencement
Conclusion
Harmony
Distinct
Flowing
Parts
Piece
Play Music
Proceeds
Thus
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I'd been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaking live on television is one thing... speaking to 30,000 people in a football stadium is another.
Brooke Baldwin /
Carolina
Chapel
Chapel Hill
Commencement
Invited
North Carolina
Address
Deliver
Stadium
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As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.
Bob Beckel / Pundit
Civil Rights
Commencement
Disagree
Engaged
Saddened
Silence
Speakers
Civil
Efforts
Fellow
Life Long
Liberal
Protests
Whom
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By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She'd given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a 'Life' write-up of her own.
Rebecca Traister /
Boyfriend
Clinton
Commencement
Life Time Political
By The Time
Earned
Embark
Graduated
Political Career
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
Pam Bondi / Florida Attorney General
Broken
Commencement
Young Women
Colleges
Glass
Schools
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I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.
Anders Holm /
Commencement
Senior
Wisconsin
Speaker
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I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.
Chang-Rae Lee / Novelist
Active
Assimilation
Brand New
Commencement
Entry
Every Step
Existence
Oneself
Open Mind
Seeing
Beginning
Brand
Case
Complete
Flows
Least
New Way
Step
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Wise
Administration
Commencement
Delicate
Existence
Expected
Imposing
Principles
Prudent
Setting
Texas
Asserted
Based
Complete
Maintained
National
Operation
Task
Universally
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As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older and you get married again to a woman who would have children, you must always remember that you make sure the children attend a college where the commencement ceremonies are held in a facility with a wheelchair accessible ramp.
Alec Baldwin / Actor
Marriage
Commencement
Facility
Married
Ramp
Always Me Remember
Accessible
Attend
Ceremonies
Get Married
Held
My Friend
Wheelchair
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
Taylor Spreitler /
Best Friend
Graduation
Commencement
Flew
Hart
Hometown
Melissa
Mississippi
Life Best Home
Life Best Mom
Any Other Way
Turning
Cooler
Joan
Surprised
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