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Obama urged graduates to engage with people from different backgrounds and different experiences, and with opposing points of views.

“It may make your blood boil. Your mind may not often be changed.
But the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship.”

– Obama,  Commencement Address 05.01.10

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About Randi Himelfarb

I share a vagrant optimism that some of us are making real progress, that when we take an honest road the best of us will inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I share a dark suspicion that the life we lead is a lost cause, that we all are kidding ourselves in a senseless odyssey. It is the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other that probably keeps me going.

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