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Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.

Dead Poets Society · 1989

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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