Spoken Gems

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  • Jefferson Smith: Priceless politics – The secret to making democracy work
  • Robert Sapolsky: The Origin of Religion
  • Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish
  • John Cleese: Graham Chapman Memorial Service
  • A.J. Jacobs: My year of living biblically
  • Geoff Burch: Selling a Tank to Genghis Khan
  • Steve Jobs: First Apple Macintosh demo
  • Randy Pausch: “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” (The Last Lecture)
  • Johnny Lee Clary: About Wade Watts
  • Andreas Eenfeldt: The Food Revolution
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  The brickwalls are there for a reason. The brickwalls are not there to keep us out. The brickwalls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brickwalls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” (The Last Lecture)

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