"Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear."

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Source : "Top 10 Commencement Speeches". content.time.com.

Russell Baker

“I love my country and I love my league.”
“I want you to be happy, you're my best friend. But it's so hard to let you go now with all that could have been. I'll always have the memories. She'll always have you. Fate has a way of changing just when you don't want it to. Throw away the chains, let love fly away. Till love comes again, I'll be okay.”
“I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.”
“If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?”
“If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
“When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.”
“Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.”
“He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.”

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