University of Maryland Commencement Address, 2014

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being and it arranges no fewer than twenty four cliche graduation phrases on the gray phrases

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let us commence president low chance flicker esteemed faculty members of the board of regents parents

relatives and friends it is a great honor to say congratulations to the two thousand and fourteen graduating class of

the university of Maryland College Park we are all in this together and together we share one story and

our prosperity and our children's lives depend upon it climate change is the transformation that

transforms every those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy let's

encourage them to go to college to and the study physics and to study economics but for the rest of us let's

go to work the technology exists it's only the will that is lack no matter what degree you've whether you're an economist or a nurse an

engineer an architect a teacher we all share single urgent call to preserve create

and advance the condition that are conducive tell we are in a period of rapid change and

we need your even more rapid iteration of ideas in action so do what works do

more of imagine smarter better and more prosperous ways to live to get make mistakes welcome

failure in fact fail often fail better but never sailed this mission do this and

your generation will know something extraordinary you will live in the most important update when mankind in the Nick of time finally

decided to live in harmony with the other living systems of our not less is required nothing

less will do the hope of humanity goes with you because you know because you choose to do something about and

for all of these reasons I look forward to the New World that you'll create thank