Thanks for your interesting email. I can't wait to read the next part. Marina
________________________________ From: anurag barthwal <[email protected]> To: English Learner's Cafe <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:22:07 AM Subject: [english_learners ] Get A Life Get A Life : This is a commencement speech made by Anna Quindlen at Villanova : It's a great honour for me to be the third member of my family to receive an honorary doctorate from this great university. Its an honour to follow my great uncle Jim, who was a gifted physician, and my Uncle Jack, who is a remarkable businessman. Both of them could have told you something important about their professions, about medicine and commerce. I have no specialized field of interest or expertise, which puts me at a disadvantage talking to you today. I am a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't ever confuse the two. your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator decided not to run for re-election because he had been diagnosed with cancer : "No man ever said on his death-bed I wish I had spent more time at the office." Don't ever forget the words my father sent me on a post-card last year : "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat." Or what John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of the Dakota : "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." (....to be continued) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
