http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... htf8o4&feature=colike

Any thoughts?

too long... bring summary...

"You are not special" - individualistic equality?
I know translation of that slogan from more harsh (totalitarian) environment: "Your life means nothing and can be replaced or wasted". Beware.

Now that has to be the best one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bAQ5GJ7szM

But conerning the speach in the OP: It's a nice pep talk for people who finished school, but I wouldn't call it the best speach ever. Unless I would've been a student there as the speach woulod touch me more emotionally.

But the gist of it is about the same of every single of those speaches, be it for high school or university graduates.

This one is better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77icnRG3_c

I disagree with all of you above, because this is the greatest speech ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IvPIWzQcUY

Quote from athome :

i disagree with all of you above, because this is the greatest speech ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ivpiwzqcuy

+1

Quote from AndRand :

I know translation of that slogan from more harsh (totalitarian) environment: "Your life means nothing and can be replaced or wasted". Beware.

I don't think you're old enough to have lived during WWII, as that's the only regime under which said aphorisms would have had some sort of validity.

+1 to the great dictator speech. Eisenhower's parting speech is worth an honourable mention though, this is a clip from it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY

Quote from Cornys :

Any thoughts?

Clicked it away after 1.5 minute.

Can't stand the stupid laughing after almost every sentence. And this is 12 minutes about weddings? Borriingg..

Quote from Yuri Laszlo :

as that's the only regime under which said aphorisms would have had some sort of validity.

?

Iraq, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Libya, Syria?

Possibly some other countries I forget to mention with questionable regimes...

Quote from Yuri Laszlo :

I don't think you're old enough to have lived during WWII, as that's the only regime under which said aphorisms would have had some sort of validity.

I lived under communist rule. Luckily, they didnt send at this time to lagers to teach you that but had much subtle ways. Bah, the methods didnt really changed.

this one is brilliant too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... DX55mI&feature=fvwrel

Quote from cargame.nl :

Clicked it away after 1.5 minute.

Can't stand the stupid laughing after almost every sentence. And this is 12 minutes about weddings? Borriingg..

A pity then, it made quite a good point and at times was a bit humorous. Also quite beautifully wrapped in symbolism here and there.

Hmm

I was waiting on this...

http://bostonherald.com/news/r ... w.bg?articleid=1061137286

Much better.

Society makes accomplishments mean nothing by making them easy to get more often than not is the main point of the speach and that people should strive to become truly acheived rather than artificially.

Gotta love some high-schooler lecturing you on what "society" does.

Also, it's "speech."

This one's well worth a listen, A US Marine Corp General telling it how it is today, only he said this back in the 1930's.

Clearly people are too stupid to listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0

You're all wrong. This is the best speech ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nneO-c1l_Uc

Quote from Racer X NZ :

This one's well worth a listen, A US Marine Corp General telling it how it is today, only he said this back in the 1930's.

Clearly people are too stupid to listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0

He also stopped an attempted US Fascist Coup in 1933.

Quote from MAGGOT :

You're all wrong. This is the best speech ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nneO-c1l_Uc

Correct Listened to it 2 times just to laugh again