[Applause]

well thank you Thank You president crow

for that extremely generous introduction

for your inspired leadership as well

here at ASU I want to thank the entire

ASU community for the honor of attaching

my name to a scholarship program that

will help open the doors of higher

education to students from every

background what a wonderful gift thank

you that notion of opening doors of

opportunity to everybody that is the

core mission of this school it's the

core mission of my presidency and I hope

this program will serve as a model for

universities across this country so

thank you so much

I want to obviously congratulate the

class of 2009 for your unbelievable

achievement I want to thank the parents

the uncles the grandpas the grandmas

cousins calabash cousins everybody who

was involved in helping these

extraordinary young people arrive at

this moment I also want to apologize to

the entire state of Arizona for stealing

away your wonderful former governor

Janet Napolitano

but you've got a fine governor here and

I also know that Janet is now applying

her extraordinary talents to serve our

entire country as the secretary of

homeland security keeping America safe

and she's doing a great job now before I

begin I'd just like to clear the air

about that little controversy everybody

was talking about a few weeks back I

have to tell you I really thought this

was much ado about nothing but I do

think we all learned an important lesson

I learned never again to pick another

team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA

brackets

it won't happen again president crow and

the Board of Regents will soon learn

about being audited by the IRS

[Applause]

now in all seriousness I come here not

to dispute the suggestion that I haven't

yet achieved enough in my life

first of all Michele concurs with that

assessment she has a long list of things

that I have not yet done waiting for me

when I get home but more than that I

come to embrace the notion that I

haven't done enough in my life I

heartily concur I come to affirm that

once titled even a title like president

of the United States says very little

about how well one's life has been like

that no matter how much you've done or

how successful you've been there's

always more to do always more to learn

and always more to achieve

[Applause]

and I want to say to you today graduates

class of 2009 that despite having

achieved a remarkable milestone in your

life despite the fact that you and your

families are so rightfully proud you too

cannot rest on your laurels not even

some of those remarkable young people

who were introduced earlier not even

that young lady whose got 4 degrees is

getting today you can't rest your own

body of work is also yet to come

now some graduating classes have marched

into this stadium in easy times times of

peace and stability when we call on our

graduates simply to keep things going

and don't screw it up other classes have

received their diplomas in times of

trial and upheaval when the very

foundations of our lives

the old order has been shaken the old

ideas and institutions have crumbled and

a new generation is called upon to

remake the world it should be clear to

you by now the category into which all

of you fall for we gather here tonight

in times of extraordinary difficulty for

the nation and for the world the economy

remains in the midst of a historic

recession the worst we've seen since the

Great Depression the result in part of

greed and irresponsibility that rippled

out from Wall Street and Washington as

we spent beyond our means and failed to

make hard choices

[Applause]

we're engaged in two wars and a struggle

against terrorism the threats of climate

change nuclear proliferation and

pandemic define national boundaries and

easy solutions for many of you these

challenges are also felt in more

personal terms perhaps you're still

looking for a job we're struggling to

figure out what career path makes sense

in this disrupted economy maybe you've

got student loans now you definitely

have student loans or credit card debts

and you're wondering how you'll ever pay

them off maybe you've got a family to

raise and you're wondering how you'll

ensure that your children have the same

opportunities you've had to get an

education and pursue their dreams now in

the face of these challenges it may be

tempting to fall back on the formulas

for success that have been peddled so

frequently in recent years it goes

something like this you're taught to

chase after all the usual brass rings

you try to be on this who's who's list

or that top 100 list you you chase after

the big money and you figure out how big

your corner office is you worry about

whether you have a fancy enough title or

a fancy enough car that's the message

that's sent each and every day or has

been in our culture for far too long

that through material possessions

through a ruthless competition pursued

only on your own behalf

that's how you will measure success now

you can take that road

and it may work for some but at this

critical juncture in our nation's

history

at this difficult time let me suggest

that such an approach won't get you

where you want to go it displays a

poverty of ambition that in fact the

elevation of appearance over substance

of celebrity over character of

short-term gains over lasting

achievement is precisely what your

generation needs to help end

[Applause]

a su I want to highlight I want to

highlight two main problems with that

old tired me first approach to life

first of all it distracts you from

what's truly important and it may lead

you to compromise your values and your

principles and your commitments think

about it it's in chasing titles and

status in worrying about the next

election rather than the national

interests and the interests of those who

you're supposed to represent that

politicians so often lose their ways in

Washington they spend time thinking

about polls but not about principle it

was in pursuit of gaudy short-term

profits and the bonuses that came with

them that so many folks lost their way

on Wall Street engaging in extraordinary

risks with other people's money

in contrast the leaders we revere the

businesses and institutions that last

they are not generally the result of a

narrow pursuit of popularity or personal

advancement but of devotion to some

bigger purpose the preservation of the

Union or the determination to lift a

country out of a depression the creation

of a quality product a commitment to

your customers your workers your

shareholders and your community a

commitment to make sure that an

institution like ASU is inclusive and

diverse and giving opportunity to all

that's the hallmark of real success

[Applause]

that other stuff that other stuff the

trappings of success may be a byproduct

of this larger mission but it can't be

the central thing just ask Bernie Madoff

that's the first problem with the old

attitude the second problem with the old

approach to success is that a relentless

focus on the outward markers of success

can lead to complacency it can make you

lazy we too often let the external the

material thing serve as indicators that

we're doing well even though something

inside us tells us that we're not doing

our best that we're avoiding that which

is hard but also necessary that that

we're shrinking from rather than rising

to the challenges of the age and the

thing is in this new hyper competitive

age none of us none of us can afford to

be complacent that's true whatever

profession you choose professors might

earn the distinction of tenure but that

doesn't guarantee that they'll keep

putting in the long hours and late

nights and have the passion and the

drive to be great educators the same

principle is true in your personal life

being a parent is not just a matter of

paying the bills doing the bare minimum

it's not just bringing a child into the

world that matters but the acts of love

and sacrifice it takes to raise and

educate that child and give them

opportunity

it can happen to presidents as well if

you think about Abraham Lincoln and

Millard Fillmore had the very same title

they're both presidents of the United

States but their tenure in office and

their legacy could not be more different

and this is not just true for

individuals it's also true for this

nation in recent years in many ways

we've become enamored with our own past

success lulled into complacency by the

glitter of our own achievements we've

become accustomed to the title of

military superpower forgetting the

qualities that got us there not just the

power of our weapons but the discipline

and valor and the code of conduct of our

men and women in uniform

[Applause]

the Marshall Plan and the Peace Corps

and all those initiatives that show our

commitment to working with other nations

to pursue the ideals of opportunity and

equality and freedom that have made us

who we are that's what made us a

superpower we become accustomed to our

economic dominance in the world

forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals

and get-rich-quick schemes that got us

where we are but hard work and smart

ideas quality products and wise

investments we started taking shortcuts

we started living on credit instead of

building up savings we saw businesses

focused more on rebranding and

repackaging than innovating and

developing new ideas that improve our

lives all the while the rest of the

world has grown hungry more Restless in

constant motion to build and to discover

not content with where they are right

now determined to strive for more

they're coming so graduates it's now

abundantly clear that we need to start

doing things a little bit different in

your own lives you'll need to

continuously adapt to a continuously

changing economy you'll end up having

more than one job and more than one

career over the course of your life

you'll have to keep on gaining new

skills possibly even new degrees and

you'll have to keep on taking risks as

new opportunities arise and as a nation

we'll need a fundamental change of

perspective and attitude it's clear that

we need to build a new foundation a

stronger foundation for our economy and

our prosperity rethinking how we grow

our economy how we use energy how we

educate our children how we care for our

sick how we treat our environment many

of

[Applause]

many of our current challenges are

unprecedented there are no standard

remedies no go to fixes this time around

in class of 2009 that's why we're going

to need your help we need young people

like you to step up

we need your Darrin we need your

enthusiasm we need your energy we need

your imagination and let me be clear

when I say young I'm not just referring

to the date of your birth certificate

I'm talking about an approach to life a

quality of mind and a quality of heart a

willingness to follow your passions

regardless of whether they lead to

fortune and fame a willingness to

question conventional wisdom and rethink

old dogmas a lack of regard for all the

traditional markers of status and

prestige and in a commitment instead to

doing what's meaningful to you what

helps others what makes a difference in

this world

[Applause]

that's the spirit that led a band of

patriots not much older than most of you

to take on an empire to start this

experiment in democracy we call America

it's what drove young pioneers west to

Arizona and beyond it's what drove young

women to reach for the ballot what

inspired a 30 year old escaped slave to

run an underground railroad to freedom

what inspired a young man named cezzah

to go out and help farmworkers what

inspired a 26 year old preacher to lead

a bus boycott for justice

it's what led firefighters and police

officers in the prime of their lives up

the stairs of those burning towers and

young people across this country to drop

what they were doing and come to the aid

of a flooded New Orleans it's what led

to guys in the garage

named Hewlett and Packard to form a

company that would change the way we

live and work what led scientists and

laboratories and novelists and coffee

shops to labor in obscurity until they

finally succeeded in changing the way we

see the world that's the great American

story young people just like you

following their passions determined to

meet the times on their own terms they

weren't doing it for the money their

titles weren't fancy ex-slave Minister

student citizen a whole bunch of them

didn't get honorary degrees

but they changed the course of history

and so can you ASU Sulkin new class of

2009

[Applause]

so can you with a degree from this

outstanding institution you have

everything you need to get started

you've got no excuses you have no

excuses not to change the world

did you study business go start a

company

or why not help us struggling

not-for-profit find better more

effective ways to serve folks in need

you study nursing

go under staff clinics and hospitals

across this country are desperate for

your health you study education

teach in a high need school where the

kids really need you give a chance to

kids who can't who can't get everything

they need maybe in their neighborhood

maybe not even their home but we can't

afford to give up on them prepare them

to compete for any job anywhere in the

world you study engineering help us lead

a green revolution developing new

sources of clean energy that will power

our economy and preserve our planet but

you can also make your mark and smaller

more individual ways that's what so many

of you have already done during your

time here at ASU tutoring children

registering voters doing your own small

part to fight hunger and homelessness

AIDS and cancer one student said it best

when she spoke about her senior

engineering project building medical

devices for people with disabilities in

a village in Africa her professor showed

a video of the folks they'd been helping

and she said when we saw the people on

the videos we began to feel a connection

to them it made us want to be successful

for them think about that it made us

want to be successful for them that's a

great model for all of us find somebody

to be successful for raise their hopes

rise to their needs as you think about

your life after graduation as you look

into the mirror tonight after the

partying is done

that shouldn't get such a big cheer you

may look in the mirror tonight and you

may see somebody who's not really sure

what to do with their lives that's what

you may see but a troubled child might

look at you and see a mentor a homebound

senior citizen might see a lifeline the

folks at your local homeless shelter

might see a friend none of them care how

much money is in your bank account or

whether you're important at work or

whether you're famous around town they

just know that you're somebody who cares

somebody who makes a difference in their

lives

so class of 2009

that's what building a body of work is

all about it's about the daily labor the

many individual acts the choices large

and small that add up over time over a

lifetime to a lasting legacy that's what

you want on your tombstone it's about

not being satisfied with the latest

achievement the latest gold star because

the one thing I know about a body of

work is that it's never finished it's

cumulative it deepens and expands with

each day that you give your best each

day that you give back and contribute to

the life of your community and your

nation you may have setbacks and you may

have failures but you're not done you're

not even getting started not by a long

shot and if you ever forget that just

look to history Thomas Paine was a

failed corset maker a failed teacher and

a failed tax collector before he made

his mark on history with a low book

called common sense that helped ignite a

revolution

Julia Child didn't publish her first

cookbook until she was almost 50 Colonel

Sanders didn't open up his first

Kentucky Fried Chicken til he was in the

sixties Winston Churchill was dismissed

as little more than a has-been who

enjoyed scotch a little bit too much

before he took over as prime minister

and saw Great Britain through its finest

hour

no one thought a former football player

stocking shelves at the local

supermarket would return to the game he

loved to become a Super Bowl MVP and

then come here to Arizona and leave your

Cardinals to their first Super Bowl your

body of work is never done

each of them at one point in their life

didn't have any title or much status to

speak of but they had passion a

commitment to following that passion

wherever would lead and to working hard

every step along the way and that's not

just how you'll ensure that your own

life is well lived

it's how you'll make a difference in the

life of our nation I talked earlier

about the selfishness selfishness and

irresponsibility on Wall Street in

Washington that rippled out and led to

so many of the problems that we face

today I talked about the focus on

outward markers of success then can help

lead us astray but here's the thing the

class of 2009 it works the other way too

acts of sacrifice and decency without

regard to what's in it for you that also

creates ripple effects ones that lift up

families and communities that spread

opportunity and boost our economy that

reach folks in the Forgotten corners of

the world

who committed young people like you see

the true face of America our strength

our goodness our diversity our enduring

power our ideals

I know starting your careers in troubled

times is a challenge but it is also a

privilege

because it's moments like these that

force us to try harder and dig deeper

and to discover gifts we never knew we

had to find the greatness that lies

within each of us so don't ever shy away

from that endeavor

don't stop adding to your body of work I

can promise that you will be the better

for that continued effort as well this

nation that we all love congratulations

class of 2009 on your graduation god

bless you and God bless the United

States of America

{{}}

[掌声

] 谢谢你，谢谢总统

crow 非常慷慨地介绍

了你在亚利桑那州立大学的鼓舞人心的领导能力

为来自不同背景的学生提供高等教育，

这是一份多么美妙的礼物，感谢

你们

为每个人打开机会之门的理念，这

是这所学校的

核心使命，也是我担任总统期间的核心使命，我希望

这个项目能够成为

各地大学的典范 这个国家

非常感谢你们

我要

祝贺 2009 届毕业生取得了令人难以置信的

成就 我要感谢

父母 叔叔 祖父 祖母

堂兄弟 葫芦堂 每

一位参与帮助这些

杰出年轻人的人

此刻我 还想

向整个亚利桑那州道歉，因为偷走

了你出色的前州长

Ja net Napolitano，

但你这里有一位优秀的州长，

我也知道珍妮特现在正在运用

她非凡的才能

作为国土安全部长为我们整个国家服务，

确保美国的安全

，在我开始之前，她现在做得很好

我会 只是想澄清

几个星期前每个人都在谈论的那个小争议我

必须告诉你我真的认为这

是无稽之谈，但我确实

认为我们都学到了一个重要的教训，

我再也不会选择另一

支球队了 在我的 NCAA 括号中的太阳恶魔

不会再发生乌鸦总统

和董事会很快就会

知道正在接受 IRS 的审计

[掌声]

现在是认真的我来到这里不是

为了质疑我没有的建议

然而，在我的生活中取得了足够的成就

首先，米歇尔同意这个

评估，她有一长串

我还没有做的事情等着

我回家，但更重要的是，我

开始接受这个通知 关于这

一点，我一生做得还不够，

我衷心

同意 或者

你有多成功，

总是有更多的事情要做，总是需要更多的学习

，总是需要更多的成就

[掌声

]我今天想对你

说，尽管

你已经在你的生活中取得了非凡的里程碑，

尽管事实上 你和你的

家人都为你感到骄傲，你也

不能满足于

自己的成就 现在还没有到来，

一些毕业班

在和平与稳定的轻松时期走进了这个体育场

在

我们生活

的基础已经动摇 旧的

观念和制度已经瓦解并且

需要新一代来

重塑世界时，他们在考验和动荡时期颁发了他们

的文凭 现在你应该清楚这个类别 你们所有人

都为之倾倒，今晚我们聚集在这里，

在这个国家和世界非常困难的时期，

经济

仍处于历史性衰退之中，这

是自大萧条以来我们所见过的最严重的衰退

，部分原因是

贪婪和 不负责任

从华尔街和华盛顿蔓延开来，因为

我们花费过多，未能

做出艰难的选择

[掌声]

我们正在进行两场战争和一场

反恐斗争 气候变化的威胁

核扩散和

流行病定义了国界和

容易 为你们中的许多人提供解决方案 这些

挑战也以更

个人的方式感受到也许你仍在

寻找一份我们正在努力寻找的工作

但是，在这个混乱的经济中，什么样的职业道路才有意义

，也许你

现在有学生贷款，你肯定

有学生贷款或信用卡债务

，你想知道如何

还清它们，也许你有一个家庭要

抚养， 您想知道如何

确保您的孩子拥有与

您一样的机会来接受

教育和追求他们的

梦想 面对这些挑战，您可能

很想回到过去的成功公式

近年来兜售如此频繁，

就像这样你被教导去

追逐所有常见的黄铜戒指

你的角落办公室是你担心你

是否有足够花哨的头衔或

足够花哨的汽车，

这是每天发送的信息，或者

在我们的文化中已经存在太久的信息

，

通过无情的网络通过物质财富 请愿书

仅代表您自己进行

，这就是您衡量成功

的方式

你想去哪里它表现出一种

贫穷的野心，事实上

，外表高于

实质高于

短期收益高于持久

成就的性格正是你们这

一代人需要帮助结束的

[鼓掌]

我想强调的苏 我想

强调两个主要问题，这种

旧的厌倦我的生活方式

首先会分散你

对真正重要的事情的注意力，它可能会导致

你妥协你的价值观和

原则以及你的承诺

想想它是在追逐头衔和

地位 在担心下一次

选举而不是国家

利益和那些

你应该代表的人的利益时，

政客们经常会失去 在

华盛顿，他们花时间

考虑民意调查而不考虑原则。

正是为了追求华丽的短期

利润和随之而来的红利

，许多人

在华尔街迷失了方向，

用别人的钱冒着巨大

的风险 对比我们所尊敬的

企业和机构的领导人，

他们通常不是

狭隘地追求声望或个人

进步的结果，而是致力于某个

更大的目标、维护

联盟或使一个

国家摆脱萧条的决心

创造优质产品 对客户的承诺

你的员工 你的

股东和社区

承诺确保

像亚利桑那州立大学这样的机构具有包容性和

多样性，并为所有人提供机会

这是真正成功的标志

[掌声]

成功的

标志可能

是这个更大使命的副产品，但它不能

成为核心 问问伯尼麦道夫

这是旧

态度的第一个问题旧方法的第二个问题

是

对成功的外在标志的不懈关注

会导致自满它会让你变得

懒惰我们经常让外部

材料 事情可以作为

我们做得很好的指标，即使

我们内心的某些东西告诉我们，我们没有

尽力而为，我们正在避免

那些困难但也是必要的事情，

我们正在退缩而不是

迎接挑战 时代和

问题是在这个新的竞争激烈的

时代，我们谁都

不能自满，这是真的，无论

您选择什么专业，教授都可能

获得终身教职，但这

并不能保证他们会继续

投入 长时间和

深夜，有激情和

动力成为伟大的教育者，同样的

原则在你的个人生活中也是如此

作为父母不仅仅是

支付账单的问题 g 最起码

，重要的不仅仅是把孩子带到这个

世界上，还有爱

和牺牲的行为来抚养和

教育那个孩子，给他们

机会

，如果

你想想亚伯拉罕·林肯和

米勒德·菲尔莫尔，总统也可能发生 他们的头衔完全相同，

他们都是美国总统，

但他们的任期和

他们的遗产有很大的不同

，这不仅对

个人如此，近年来对这个国家也是如此，

在很多方面

我们已经 沉迷于自己过去的

成功 被

我们自己的辉煌成就所迷惑 我们

已经习惯了

军事超级大国的称号 忘记了

让我们到达那里的品质 不仅

是我们的武器的力量，还有纪律

、勇气和守则

[掌声

] 马歇尔计划和和平队

以及所有表明我们

致力于与其他国家合作的举措

追求机会、

平等和自由的理想，这使我们成为

我们自己，这就是使

我们成为超级大国的原因，我们已经习惯了我们

在世界上的经济主导地位，

忘记了不是鲁莽的交易

和快速致富的计划

努力工作和聪明的

想法使

我们达到了

今天的水平

当世界其他地方

变得更加饥饿时，不安于

不断地建设和发现

不满足于他们

现在决心争取更多的地方，

他们即将到来，所以毕业生现在

非常清楚我们需要开始

做事 在

你自己的生活中有点不同 你需要

不断适应不断

变化的经济 你最终将拥有

超过

在你的一生中，一份工作和不止一份职业，

你必须不断获得新

技能，甚至可能获得新学位，

随着

新机会的出现，你必须继续冒险，作为一个国家，

我们需要一个

观点和态度的根本转变 很明显，

我们需要建立一个新的

基础 为我们的经济和繁荣奠定更坚实的基础

重新思考我们如何发展

经济 我们如何使用能源 我们如何

教育我们的孩子 我们如何照顾我们的

病人 我们如何对待我们的 环境 许多

[掌声]

我们目前的许多挑战是

前所未有的 没有标准的

补救措施 2009 届这一次没有解决问题

这就是为什么

我们需要你的帮助 我们需要像你这样的年轻人

来加强

我们需要 你的 Darrin 我们需要你的

热情 我们需要你的能量 我们需要

你的想象力

当我说年轻的时候让我说清楚 我不只是

指你的出生证明的日期

我说的是一种生活方式

心灵的品质和内心的品质

愿意追随你的激情

，不管它们是否会带来

财富和名望 愿意

质疑传统智慧并重新思考

旧教条 不尊重所有

传统的地位和

声望标志以及承诺 而不是

做对你有意义的事情

帮助他人 对这个世界产生影响的事情

[掌声]

正是这种精神带领一群

比你们大多数人年龄不远的爱国者

建立了一个帝国，开始了

我们称之为美国的民主实验

正是它驱使年轻的开拓者向西前往

亚利桑那州及更远的地方 它驱使年轻

女性去争取选票

激励一个 30 岁的逃亡奴隶

经营一条通往自由的地下铁路

激励一个名叫 cezzah 的年轻人

走出去帮助农场工人

激励 一位 26 岁的传教士

带领公共汽车抵制正义，

这就是导致消防员和

警察在他们生命的黄金时期

登上车站的原因 这个国家的那些燃烧的塔楼和

年轻人放弃

他们正在做的事情并前来

援助被洪水淹没的新奥尔良，这就是

导致车库里

名叫休利特和帕卡德的人成立一家

公司的原因，这将改变我们的

生活方式 和工作让科学家、

实验室、小说家和

咖啡店默默无闻地工作，直到他们

最终成功地改变了我们

看待世界的方式，这是伟大的美国

故事年轻人就像你一样

追随他们的激情，决心

以自己的方式迎接时代

他们不是为了钱他们的

头衔不是花哨的前奴隶部长

学生公民他们中的一大群人

没有获得荣誉学位

但他们改变了历史进程

，你也可以 ASU Sulkin 2009 新班

[ 掌声]

那么你能否拥有这所

杰出机构的学位 你拥有

一切所需的开始

你没有任何借口 你没有任何

借口不改变

世界 你学习了吗 你去创业，

或者为什么不帮助我们挣扎

的非营利组织找到更好更

有效的方法来为有需要的人服务

你学习护理

去工作人员诊所和

全国各地的医院都迫切需要

你的健康你学习教育

教学

孩子们真正需要的高需求学校 你给

那些不能得到

他们需要的一切的孩子一个机会 也许在他们的邻居

甚至他们的家中，但我们

不能放弃他们，让他们准备好

竞争 对于世界上任何地方的任何工作

你学习工程学帮助我们领导

一场绿色革命开发新

的清洁能源，这将为

我们的经济提供动力并保护我们的星球，但

你也可以做你的标记和更小

更个性化的方式，这就是

你们中的许多人所拥有的

你在亚利桑那州立大学的时候已经完成了辅导孩子

登记选民做你自己的一小

部分来对抗饥饿和无家可归

艾滋病和癌症一位学生

在谈到她时说得最好 她的高级

工程项目

为

非洲一个村庄的残疾人建造医疗设备 她的教授展示

了他们一直在帮助的人们的视频

，她说当我们看到

视频中的人们时，我们开始感觉到

与他们的联系 我们想为他们取得成功

想想这让我们

想为他们取得成功 这

对我们所有人来说都是一个很好的榜样

今晚派对结束后照镜子

，这不应该得到如此大的欢呼 你

今晚可能照镜子，你

可能会看到一个

不确定如何处理他们的生活的人，这就是

你可能看到的，但一个陷入困境的孩子 可能会

看着你并看到一位导师 一个

无家可归的老年人可能会看到一条生命线 当地无家可归者收容所的人们

可能会看到一个朋友 他们都不关心

你的银行账户里

有多少钱 那么你在工作中很重要，或者

你是否在城里很有名，他们

只知道你是一个关心

改变他们

生活的人，

所以 2009 年

的班级这就是建立一个工作体系的

全部意义所在 日常劳动

许多个人的行为 大大小小的选择

随着时间的推移在一生中累积起来

，成为持久的遗产 这就是

你想要的墓碑 它是关于

对最新

成就不满意最新的金星因为

我知道的一件事 工作的主体

是它永远不会完成它是

累积的它随着

每一天而加深和扩展你尽你最大的每

一天你回馈并

为你的社区和你的国家的生活做出贡献

你可能有挫折，你可能

有失败，但是 你还没有完成你

甚至还没有开始

，如果你忘记了

看看历史托马斯潘恩是一个

失败的紧身胸衣制造商一个失败的老师和

一个失败的税务员 托尔在

他以一本名为常识的低俗书籍而在历史上留下印记之前，这本书

帮助点燃了

一场革命

朱莉娅·查尔德

直到她快 50 岁时才出版她的第一本

食谱 桑德斯上校直到他在

60 年代 温斯顿丘吉尔被

认为只是一个

过时的人，

在他接任首相之前，他有点喜欢苏格兰威士忌，

并见证了英国度过了最美好的

时光 会回到他喜欢的比赛

，成为超级碗MVP，

然后来到亚利桑那州，让你的

红雀队参加他们的第一个超级碗

你的工作从未完成

过他们每个人在他们生命中的某个时刻

没有任何头衔 或很多地位

可言，但他们有激情，

承诺在任何地方都追随这种激情，

并在

前进的每一步都努力工作，这

不仅仅是你如何确保你的 自己的

生活过得很好

这就是你将如何改变

我们国家的

生活 关注

成功的外在标志可能会

帮助我们误入歧途，但这是 2009 届毕业生的事情，

它的工作方式

恰恰相反

传播

机会并促进经济发展的家庭和社区

接触到世界上被遗忘角落的

人们 像你们这样忠诚的年轻人 看到

美国的真实面貌 我们的力量

我们的善良 我们的多样性 我们持久的

力量 我们的理想

我知道你的职业生涯是在陷入困境中开始的

时代是一种挑战，但也是一种

特权，

因为正是这样的时刻

迫使我们更加努力，更深入地挖掘

并发现礼物 我们从不知道我们

必须找到

我们每个人内在的伟大所以永远不要

回避努力

不要停止增加你的工作我

可以保证你会

因为持续的努力而变得更好

这个我们都爱的国家

祝贺你毕业 2009

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