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" It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree. "
Akshay Kumar
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" My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with government assistance - at one point when I was growing up, my mother was making $14,000 a year. Now I had made it out of the hood, so to speak. "
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" Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree. "
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" Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. "
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" Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. "
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" I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. "
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" Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do. "
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" I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. "
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" Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. "
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