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• A comment on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 22 2011: Well, the conversation is coming to a close.. I think we had a pretty good run. Thanks to all those who posted, some great material there :)

• A reply on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 22 2011: Seems to me that Job's speech at Stanford is a top pick for a lot of people. Can't blame them really, its a great speech :)

• A reply on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 21 2011: Haha you're not alone mate. That was a classic movie :)

• A reply on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 21 2011: I loved the talk on sixth sense :) so innovative

• A reply on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 18 2011: Nice!

• A reply on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 18 2011: Cheers mate!

• A reply on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 17 2011: Thanks for that! I should have thought of writing it out lol >.
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  A comment on Conversation: which country do you like best or which city did you want to go？

  Oct 14 2011: I would really like to visit Venice, Italy during their annual carnival. It seems like such a nice place and the Carnival of Venice is something I always wanted to experience.
  
  Also, visiting Brazil during the FIFA World Cup would be amazing!

• A reply on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 13 2011: I LOVE that talk. I remember when I first watched it I was soooo moved. I think I've watched it ~7 times since then. Great speech :)
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the most inspiring speech you have heard?

  Oct 13 2011: Recently saw this movie called Invictus (presumably named after the poem below by William Ernest Henley)
  
  Out of the night that covers me,
  Black as the pit from pole to pole,
  I thank whatever gods may be
  For my unconquerable soul.
  
  In the fell clutch of circumstance
  I have not winced nor cried aloud.
  Under the bludgeonings of chance
  My head is bloody, but unbowed.
  
  Beyond this place of wrath and tears
  Looms but the Horror of the shade,
  And yet the menace of the years
  Finds and shall find me unafraid.
  
  It matters not how strait the gate,
  How charged with punishments the scroll,
  I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.
  
  In the movie Morgan Freeman plays as Nelson Mandela. During his Incarceration he was so inspired by this poem that he wrote it on a piece of paper and kept it n his prison cell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FozhZHuAcCs is the scene from the movie where it is recited.