"Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of……" — John Kenneth Galbraith

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• The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to… — Miyamoto Musashi
• There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to… — Charles Spurgeon
• It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By… — Georges Cuvier
• In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that… — Ernest L. Wilkinson
• It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the… — Jacques Derrida
• There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such… — David Foster Wallace
• The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in… — Edmund Burke
• A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. — Paul Tsongas
• Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with… — Unknown Author
• Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of… — Sri Aurobindo
• The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although… — Ezra Hall Gillett
• You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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