"Nothing worth knowing can be taught."
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"The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices."
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"Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams."
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think."
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"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
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"My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school."
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"Education is the best provision for old age."
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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
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"Death is very likely the single best invention of life."
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"So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality."
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"Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain."
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"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."
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"You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here."
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"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
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"You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it."
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"Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it."
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"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."
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