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==Notable commencement speeches== * [[Winston Churchill]] at [[Harrow School]] in 1941<ref name=Time>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1898670,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520164648/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1898670,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2009 |title=Top 10 Commencement Speeches |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time magazine]] |access-date=April 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/37134742/page/7 |title=The 10 Best Graduation Speeches of All Time: Winston Churchill, Former UK PM |date=13 May 2010 |publisher=[[CNBC]] |access-date=April 9, 2013}}</ref> * [[George C. Marshall]] at [[Harvard University]] in 1947: the [[Marshall Plan]]<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780199272808 |editor-last=Hanhimäki |editor-first=Jussi M. |pages=122 |editor-last2=Westad |editor-first2=Odd Arne}}</ref> * [[John F. Kennedy]]'s [[American University speech]] in 1963<ref name=Time/> * [[Richard Feynman]] at the [[California Institute of Technology]] in 1974: "[[Cargo cult science]]"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf |title=Cargo Cult Science|author-link=Richard Feynman|last=Feynman|first= Richard P.|website= [[California Institute of Technology]] |date= June 1974 |access-date= 2015-10-25}}</ref> * [[Joseph Brodsky]] at the [[University of Michigan]] in 1988: "Speech at the Stadium"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brodskiy.su/proza/rech-na-stadione/?lang=en |title=Speech at the Stadium |author-link=Joseph Brodsky|last=Brodsky|first= Joseph}}</ref> *[[Steve Jobs]] at [[Stanford University]] in 2005<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/12/youve-got-find-love-jobs-says |title="You've Got to Find What you Love", Jobs Says|date=2005-06-12|work=Stanford News|access-date=2022-07-11|language=en}}</ref> *[[David Foster Wallace]] at [[Kenyon College]] in 2005: "[[This Is Water]]"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water_us_573e1182e4b0aee7b8e962d0 |title=David Foster Wallace's Famous Commencement Speech Almost Didn't Happen|last=Levine|first=Sam|date=2016-05-20|work=Huffington Post|access-date=2017-11-05|language=en}}</ref>
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