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Showing posts with label commencement speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commencement speech. Show all posts

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech

Posted on 8:21 AM by Unknown
I've posted this speech before, but I felt it was important to post again this morning.  If you have not seen this speech, you MUST watch.  It proves rather eerie listening to it today, but the message is so powerful.

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