I would ask this year's graduating class to please take note of the following timely fortune cookie:
Fountains of Wayne
"Prom Theme"
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." |
Also, the Class of 2013 should feel free to be further inspired by these YouTube videos.
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
("Land of Hope and Glory")
(Last Night of the Proms 2012)
("Land of Hope and Glory")
(Last Night of the Proms 2012)
"Prom Theme"
July 21, 2013 Update: The fortune cookie quotation apparently has been around for a while, but I hadn't seen it before. I learned that it is often attributed to Gandhi, but this is what Brian Morton had to say in the New York Times of August 29, 2011:
Starting from the fourth paragraph:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/opinion/falser-words-were-never-spoken.html?_r=0 |
So I apologize to the Class of 2013 for dispensing hackneyed advice from a bumper sticker. In my defense, I thought it came from a fortune cookie.
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