Amy Poehler, a graduate of Boston college (“which some call the ‘Harvard’ of Boston”) addressed the Harvard graduating class this year, telling them it was nice to be speaking at Harvard (“the ‘Harvard’ of Harvard”), in a funny speech in which she said she had discovered that “you can’t do it alone.”
No one is here today because they did it on their own … You’re all here today because someone gave you strength. Helped you. Held you in the palm of their hand.
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The video is worth watching, but if you only have time for one, watch Timothy J. Lambert’s speech to his fellow students on the close and complex relationship of love and hate — and watch the expression on Amy Poehler’s face near the end of Lambert’s beautifully conceived and delivered address: