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has nothing to do with going
to business school or medical school.
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Right? Maybe.
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Mr Hopkins, you may agree with him,
thinking...
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"Yes, we should simply study
our Mr Pritchard
and learn our rhyme and metre...
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and go quietly about the business
of achieving other ambitions."
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I've a little secret for you.
Huddle up.
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Huddle up!
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We don't read and write poetry
because it's cute.
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We read and write poetry because
we are members of the human race...
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and the human race
is filled with passion.
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And medicine, law, business,
engineering...
:24:45
these are noble pursuits
and necessary to sustain life.
:24:49
But poetry, beauty...
:24:52
romance, love...
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these are what we stay alive for.
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To quote from Whitman...
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"O me, O life of the questions
of these recurring...
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of the endless trains
of the faithless...
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of cities filled with the foolish.
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What good amid these
O me, O life?"
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Answer:
that you are here.
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That life exists,
an identity.
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That the powerful play goes on,
and you may contribute a verse.
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That the powerful play goes on...
:25:30
and you may contribute a verse.
:25:38
What will your verse be?
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For what we are about to receive...
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may the Lord make us truly grateful.
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Amen.