U in the USA » Choices http://www.uintheusa.com/blog International Students and Visitors. Life Simplified Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:40:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 I Choose Not To Be A Common Man http://www.uintheusa.com/blog/2011/10/i-choose-not-to-be-a-common-man/ http://www.uintheusa.com/blog/2011/10/i-choose-not-to-be-a-common-man/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:01:54 +0000 Jean-Marc http://www.uintheusa.com/blog/?p=6127



It’s my choice to be uncommon if I can

I’ll seek opportunity not security

I do not wish to be a kept citizen humbles

And dulled by having the state look after me

I want to take the calculated risk to dream

And to build, to fail and to succeed

I’ll refuse to live from hand to mouth

I’ll prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence

The thrill of fulfillment to the calm of utopia

I will never cower before any master

Nor bend to any friend

It is my heritage to stand erect, proud

And unafraid, to think and act for myself

And face the world boldly and say

This I have done by the help of God.

-Theodore Roosevelt

 

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In this Princeton University graduation address, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes the case that our character is reflected not in the gifts we’re endowed with at birth, but by the choices we make over the course of a lifetime. Watch this talk below:


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