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president first

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members of The Hobbit corporation

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and the border fences members of the
faculty

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proud parents and a buffalo

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graduates the first thing I would like
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is thank you not earnings hoffa

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given me an extraordinary honor but the
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fear and nausea I haven't yet at the
thought of giving this commencement

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address

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have made me lose weight

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a win-win situation

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now all I have to do is take deep
breaths screen to the right balance

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and convince myself and I that I am

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the world's largest orphaned or union
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delivering the commencement address

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is a great responsibility so I thought

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until I cast my mind back to my own
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the commencement speaker that day was
the distinguished British philosopher

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Arun s Mary gonna reflecting on her
speech

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has helped me enormously in writing this
one because it turns out that I can't

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remember single what she said

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this liberating discovery enables me to
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without any fear that I might

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inadvertently influence you

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to abandon promising careers in business
the law politics

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for the kitty delights of the coming
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you see if only remember in years to
come is the game which is Joe

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I come out ahead baroness marry

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the achievable goals

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the first step to self-improvement

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actually I have tracked

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my mind and heart what I want to say to
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I've asked myself what I wish I had
known at my own graduation

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and most important lessons I have
learned

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in the 21 years expired between that day
after this

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I have come up with two outs this on
this wonderful day

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when we have gathered together to
celebrate your academic success

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I have decided to talk to you about the
benefits a failure

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and as you stand on the threshold

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40 sometimes called real-life I want to
extol the crucial importance

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%uh imagination this may seem quixotic a
paradoxical choices

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but bear with me looking back

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at the 21-year-old that I was at
graduation is a slightly uncomfortable

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experience for the 42-year-old

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she has become of my lifetime ago

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I was striking an uneasy balance between
the ambition i have for myself and what

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those closest

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to me expected of me I was convinced
that the only thing I wanted to do

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ever was write novels however my parents

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both of whom came from impoverished
backgrounds and neither of whom had been

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to college

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took the view that my overactive
imagination was an amusing personal

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quote: that would never pay a mortgage

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secure pension I know the irony strikes
with the force of a cartoon until now

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so they hoped that I would take a
vocational degree

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I wanted to study English literature a
compromise was reached

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that in retrospect satisfied nobody and
I went up to study modern languages

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hardly have my parents car around the
corner at the end of the road

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the night ditched German scuttled off
down the classics card

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I cannot remember telling my parents
that I was studying classics

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they might well found out for the first
time on graduation day

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of all the subjects on this planet

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I think they would have been hard put to
name one less useful in Greek mythology

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when it came to securing the keys to an
executive bathroom

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not I would like to make it clear

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in parenthesis that I do not blame my
parents for that point-of-view

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there is an expiry date on blaming your
parents for steering

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in the wrong direction the

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the moment you are old enough to take
the wheel

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responsibility lies with you what a
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I cannot criticize my parents were
hoping that I would never experienced

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poverty

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they had been call themselves and I have
since been call

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and I quiting agree with them that it is
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and then opening experience poverty

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entails fear and stress and sometimes
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it needs a thousand petty humiliations
and hardships

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climbing out to poverty by your own
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that is something on which to pride
yourself but poverty itself

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is romanticized only buy phones what I
feared most for myself

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your age was not poverty failure

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at your age in spite of a distinct lack
of motivation

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University where I had spent far too
long in the coffee by writing stories

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and far too little time lectures I had a
knack for passing examinations

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and fat for years had been the measure
of success

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in my life and that of my peers now

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I'm not dumb enough to suppose that
because you are young

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gifted well-educated you have never show
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heartbreak hardship haha take

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talent and intelligence never get
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anyone the gates the Caprice to face and
I do not for a moment suppose

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everyone here has enjoyed an existence
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privilege and contentment however

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the fact that you a graduating from
Harvard

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suggests that you are not very well
acquainted with failure

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you might be driven by fear of failure

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quite as much as a desire for success
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your conception Fadia might not be far
removed from the average person's idea

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success

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so high

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have you already flown ultimately

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we'll have to decide for ourselves what
constitutes

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that the world is quite eager to give
you a set of criteria if you let it

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so I think it's fair to say that by any
conventional measures missed seven years

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after my graduation day

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I had failed on an epic scale an
exception the short-lived marriage had

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imploded

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and I was jobless lone parent

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and discourse it is possible to be in
modern Britain

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without being homeless the fears that my
parents have had for me

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and that I had happened myself had both

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come to pass and by every usual standard

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I was the biggest failure I knew now I'm
not going to stand here and tell you

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that

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it's fun that period my life is a dark
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and I had no idea that there was going
to be what the press has said

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states represented as a kind a fairy
tale resolution

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I have no idea then how far the tunnel
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and for a long time any light at the end
of it was a hug rather than a reality

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so why do I tool about the benefits

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Fadia simply because fayed yet

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men to stripping away in essential I
stopped pretending to myself that I was

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anything

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other than what I loss and began to
direct all my energy

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into finishing the only work matter to
me had i really succeeded anything else

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I might never have found the
determination to succeed in the one

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arena

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for I believed I truly belonged I will
sit

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free because my greatest fear been
realized and I was still alive and I

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still had a daughter whom I adored

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and I had an old typewriter and a big
idea

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and so rock-bottom became a solid
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which I rebuilt my life you might never
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on the scale I did some failure in life

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is inevitable it is impossible

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today without failing at something
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cautiously you might as well not lift at
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in which case you failed by default

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failure taking in a security that I've
never attained by passing examinations

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failure taught me things about myself
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no other way I discovered that I had a
strong will

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and more discipline than I have
suspected I also found out

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but I have friends whose value was truly
about the prices through this

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the knowledge that you have emerged
wiser and stronger from setbacks

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means that you are ever after secure in
your ability to survive

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you will never truly know yourself all
the strength of your relationships

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until both have been testified for city
such knowledge

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is a true gift for all that it is
painfully 1

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and it has been worth more than any
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I ever so given a Time Turner

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i would tell my 21 year old self
personal happiness lies

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in knowing that mike is not a checklist
acquisition or achievement

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your qualifications your CP

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I'm not your life you will meet many
people at my age and older

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to confuse the two life is difficult

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and complicated and beyond anyone's
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and the humility to know that will
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it's the city's now you might think that
I chose my second seen the importance of

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imagination because of the particulate

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in rebuilding my life but that is not
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though I personally will defend the
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bedtime stories to my last class I have
learned to value imagination

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in a much broader sense imagination

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is not only the uniquely human capacity
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and therefore found all invention

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and innovation in its arguably most
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and revel 83 capacity it is the power
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to empathize with humans experiences we
have never shed

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one of the greatest formative
experiences of my life percy

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Harry Potter which informed much by
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books this revelation came in the form
of one my estate jobs

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know I was looking up to write stories
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I paid the rent in my early 20's by
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at the African research department
Amnesty International's headquarters

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in London there in my little office

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I read hastily scribbled letters
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out totalitarian regimes by men and
women who are risking imprisonment

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to inform the outside world what was
happening to them

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I saw photographs those who disappeared
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sent to amnesty by the desperate
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I read the testimony torture victims and
still pictures

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injuries I opened hand-written

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I witness accounts summary trials and
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kidnappings and rapes

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many of my coworkers were ecstatic a
prisoner's people could be

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to be displaced from their homes or fled
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because they have the temerity to speak
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visitors to our office is included those
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or to try and find out what happened to
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I shall never forget the African torture
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a young man no older than I was at the
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after all he had to do that in his
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he trembled uncontrollably as he spoke
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about their brutality inflicted upon him

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he was a foot taller than i close and
seem to scratch I'll

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as a child I was given the job school to
him back to the underground station

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afterwards

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and this man whose life had been
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took my hand with exquisite courtesy

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and wished me future happiness

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and as long as I'm I should remember
walking along an empty cart

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and suddenly hearing from behind a
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a screen pain and horror such as I have
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the door opened and researcher hotel to

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out ahead and told me to run and make a
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for the young man sitting with her

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she had just had to keep in the news
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outspokenness

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thinks his country's regime his mother

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have been seized and executed

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every day of my working week in my early
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I was reminded how incredibly fortunate
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to live in a country with a
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when legal representation and a public
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but the rights everyone everyday

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I saw more evidence about the evils
humankind's would inflict on their

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fellow humans

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to gain or maintain power

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I began to have nightmares literal
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about some of the things I saw hurt

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and red and yet

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I also learnt more about human goodness

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at Amnesty International when I had Evan
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amnesty mobilizes thousands of people
who have never been tortured or

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imprisoned for their beliefs

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to act on behalf of those who have

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the power human empathy leading to
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saves lives and freeze prisoner's

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ordinary people whose personal
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join together in huge numbers to say
people they do not know

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I'm never meet my small participation

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in that process was one of the most
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my life unlike

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any other creature on this planet human
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can learn and understand without having
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they can think to themselves into other
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of course this is a power like Mike
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it is morally neutral one might use such
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to manipulate or control just as much

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has to understand sympathize

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and many prefer not to exercise their
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at all they choose to remain comfortably
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experience

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never traveling to wonder how it would
feel to have been born other than they

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are

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they can refuse to hear screams
appearance I cages

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they can close their minds and hearts to
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they can refuse to know

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I might be tempted to enter people who
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except that I do not think they have any
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choosing to live in narrow spaces leads
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and that brings its own terrace I think
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an imaginative see more monsters

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they are often more freight

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what is more those who choose not to
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enable real monsters for without ever
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outright evil ourselves we collude with
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through our own apathy

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one of the many things I didn't the
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I pictured at the age of eighty

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in search of something I could not then
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written by the Greek of the few talk
what we achieve inwardly

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will change out to reality

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that is an astonishing statement and get
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every day of our lives it expresses in
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our in a stable connection with the
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the fact that we touch other people's
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but how much more are you harvard
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2008 likely to touch other people's
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your intelligence your capacity for hard
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education you have and and received

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if you unique unique status and unique
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even your nationality sets you apart

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the great majority of you belong to the
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the way you felt the way you live the
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the pressure you bring to bear on your
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way beyond your borders that is your
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Angela Byrd if you choose to use your
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on behalf of those who have no voice

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if you choose to identify not only with
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but with the power less if you retain
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into the lives those who do not have
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then it will not only be you're proud
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thousands and millions of people this
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you have helped change we do not need
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to transform our world we carry all the
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already we have the power to imagine
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I made finished I have one last hope for
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which is something that I already have
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the friends with whom i sat on
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they are my children's cough parents the
people to whom I've been able to turn in

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times of real trouble

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people have been kind enough not to see
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at our graduation

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we were bound by enormous affection by
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never coming and of course by the
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photographic evidence that would be
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if any of this round prime minister

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so today I wish you nothing better

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and similar friendships and tomorrow

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I hope that even if you remember not a
single word of mine

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you remember those senator another of
those old Roman Sinemet

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when I fled down the classics cards in
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from Korea lattice in search ancient
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as is a tale so is life

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not how long it is but how good it is

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is what matters I wish she will very
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thank you very much