Fred Rogers’ Commencement address at Middlebury College, May 2001 BESIDE MY CHAIR IN MY OFFICE IS A FRAMED PIECE OF CALLIGRAPHY WITH A SENTENCE FROM SAINT EXUPERY’S BOOK, “THE LITTLE PRINCE” (“LE PETIT PRINCE”). IT READS: “L’ESSENTIEL EST INVISIBLE POUR LES YEUX.” (WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS INVISIBLE TO THE EYE.) I FEEL THE CLOSER WE […]
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Stephen King on Giving – Vassar commencement address, 2001 http://commencement.vassar.edu/2001/010520.king.html Keywords: King, Stephen; giving; charity; commencement; What are you going to do, Vassar oh-one? Who will be the doctors, the lawyers, the writers, the painters, the executives, the politicians? Who’s going to look around at age forty-five, surprised as hell to find himself or herself […]