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ANNE HOLTON: I learned crucial lessons
of humility and appreciation of differential human talent.
I also learned that sometimes it's
OK to try something so hard that success is not
a foregone conclusion.
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BAZ LUHRMANN: Listen to everyone.
Listen to your friends.
Listen to your enemies.
But then, go into a corner and ask yourself,
not, 'what do I think?' but, 'what do I actually feel?
What do I feel?'
And that decision, my friends, will be the right decision.
Because you made it.
And it wasn't made for you.
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SANJEEV KULKARNI: This educational process
at Princeton cultivates in you the ability and confidence
to succeed and lead in new areas of inquiry, in new fields,
and in new endeavors throughout your lives.
Congratulations on your accomplishments.
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JIN YUN CHOW: More often than not,
it's not because of some orchestrated, pre-planned
effort that we end up sharing a beautiful bond of friendship
with someone.
It's because we were present to talk.
It's because we were there to listen.
Here's to all of our heroes, known and unknown,
sung and unsung, who got us through these four years.
To them and to everyone who has been there for us
through this journey, thank you.
CHRISTOPHER L. EISGRUBER: The place of learning, he said,
should be a large and lasting one consistent in character
and scale with the values of this university from which you
are now to take your lead.
May it be a place able to accommodate the fun of learning
as well as the effort that all true learning requires.
May its boundaries be set not by what
we think we know now but by a lifelong curiosity
and an abiding appreciation for ideas,
for their elusiveness to be sure,
but also for their power, their beauty, and their capacity
to enrich our lives and the lives of others.
To all of you who received degrees from this university,
from all of us here on the platform,
congratulations to the great Class of 2017.
Onward!
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