"Now I'd like you to step forward over here. They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you. Their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe... hear it? ...Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

-- John Keating                             

"Only in his dreams can man be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be'." -- John Keating                             

"If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am an honest Puck, if we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, we will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; so, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and robin shall restore amends." -- Neil Perry, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream

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