Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."
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Dead Poets Society
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Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world."
Robin Williams
Actor, Comedian
"Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all."
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse."
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
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"O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?"
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"But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
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"I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself."
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"Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die."
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"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone."
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"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."
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"If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."
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"What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire."
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"I am that merry wanderer of the night."
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"I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way."
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"We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you"
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"So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends."
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"The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard."
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