Over the course of that morning, I started hearing from a lot of Tribune readers, both on the phone and via e-mail, telling me that they were getting this commencement speech in their e-mail but they remembered reading it in my column,
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Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.Mary Schmich
The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
Mary Schmich
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich
Consider the lowly word if. If can launch any accusation into the public arena in the guise of fact. If can poison a life as surely as cyanide. Grease a sentence with if and you can skid from speculation to impeachment in the time it takes to say, Tricky Dick.
Mary Schmich
Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
Mary Schmich
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