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“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.”
Gloria Steinem
“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 Purvis
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”
Pearl S. Buck
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”
Carol Gilligan
“When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.”
Peter De Vries
“I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.”
Derek Bok
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