Best Commencement Speeches

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Acclaimed computer science professor and the writer of The Last Lecture spoke to 2008 Carnegie Mellon grads about his battle with terminal cancer and the importance of living life fully:

"We don't beat the reaper by living longer. We beat the reaper by living well and living fully. For the reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up?"