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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Education

"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."

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Brigham Young Religious Leader
Education

"No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
Education

"I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Education

"We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
Education

"Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day."

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
Education

"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading."

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Plato Philosopher
Education

"Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp"

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Education

"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
Education

"What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?"

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