Suzan-Lori Parks

Mount Holyoke College, May 27, 2001

Believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up.

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Adam Savage

Sarah Lawrence College, 2012

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Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss’ Geisel

Lake Forest College, 1977