One Sentence Commencement Speeches

Frank Warren, the artist behind Post Secret, recently delivered the commencement address at St. Mary's College in Maryland. In preparation for it, he asked members of the graduating class to write a one-sentence response to the question "What do my classmates, and I, need to hear on Graduation Day?" Here are a few of his responses:

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

It’s okay to fail – learn from it and you will succeed.

It’s better to be pissed-off than pissed-on.

If you were to asked to deliver a commencement speech that was only one sentence long, what would it be?

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2009/05/sunday-secrets_17.html


If you like someone, ask them for a date;
say goodbye if they make you less than you were;
a similar principle applies for nearly everything - ideas, jobs, friends, food and intoxicants :)
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"It’s better to be pissed-off than pissed-on." - I love this line. I've seen his works on his Post Secret blog, it's all great stuff right there. Here's my one liner by the way...

"Life is like a box of chocolate, it's delicious!"
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In the morning, when you wake up naked and watch yourself in the mirror, and you see that you have 4 testicules, stop boasting on your masculinity : you're being *****d.

*hum*
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"If you have come to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work together."
-Aboriginal Activist Group, Queensland 1970
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