Tom Hanks discusses America's future at Harvard: Truth is sacred.

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Tom Hanks' passionate graduation speech on Thursday urged Harvard's 2023 graduates to protect truth.

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The Oscar winner quipped that he obtained an honorary doctorate of arts

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"without having done a lick of work"

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other than portraying a Harvard professor in "The Da Vinci Code" movies.

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“That's not fair at all,” he remarked.

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I know little Latin. "Enzymes don't interest me, and public global policy is something I scan on the newspaper before I do the Wordle,

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" Hanks added. “And yet here I am closing—closing for Josiah, Pallas, and Vic,” he joked.

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“Truth, justice, and the American way,” Hanks said.

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