".....I didn't bring them up here to ridicule them. I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others. Now, those of you -- I see the look in your eyes like, "I would've walked differently." Well, ask yourselves why you were clapping. Now, we all have a great need for acceptance. But you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, "That's baaaaad."
Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." Now, I want you to find your own walk right now. Your own way of striding, pacing. Any direction. Anything you want. Whether it's proud, whether it's silly, anything. Gentlemen, the courtyard is yours....."
Today I woke up to the news that the manic lexicographic genius that is Robin Williams had died overnight, an as yet unconfirmed suicide.
Little I can say to add to this brilliant quote from (for my money) the best film he ever performed in, The Dead Poet's Society. His work will live on, yet today as I write this, he now can mingle with the Dead Poets, and dream. Carpe diem Robin.
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