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Escape the victim status! Joseph Brodsky's famous speech

Escape the victim status! Joseph Brodsky's famous speech

Escape the victim status!

Respect life with its charms and difficulties

Excerpts from Joseph Brodsky's famous speech to the graduates of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Stadium in December 1988:

1. Try to expand your vocabulary and treat it like your bank account. Give it a lot of attention and try to accumulate dividends. It's not meant to boost your eloquence in the bedroom or on the road to professional success, nor to turn you into a worldly savant—though it will eventually become that.

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The paradox of our time

The paradox of our time

The paradox of our time is that we have tall buildings but low tolerance; wide highways but a narrow worldview; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses but smaller families; more convenience but less time. We have more degrees in education, but less sense; more knowledge but poorer judgment; more experts, but also more problems; more medicine but less health; we take more vitamins but see less results.

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Meryl Streep

It doesn't matter what people say, always believe in yourself

Meryl Streep: “This is a picture of me coming home from an audition for a role in the movie King Kong. They told me I'm very ugly and I don't get up. Well, I told them that was just their opinion. Today I have won over 164 awards and am one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. It doesn't matter what they say

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Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

A woman's sense is far more accurate than a man's confidence - Quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling - outstanding poet, writer, journalist. Among his most famous works are: The Jungle Book, Kim, Many Stories and Poems. In 1907, aged just 41, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first English-language author and the youngest person ever to receive the prize

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