Commencement 2013: A sampling of advice to this year's college grads

Here are some memorable excerpts from this spring's college commencement addresses.

2. You walk alone sometimes

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Wynton Marsalis performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I., on Aug. 6, 2011.

"To journey is to embrace change. And though we sit in the shadow of the halls of erudition and scholarship, though you walk today on an established path in the echoing footsteps of ceremony, we know you are also building new paths that need to be built. And these new roads and bridges can only be constructed by you and you alone. " 

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz musician

At the University of Vermont

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