#amherst

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place. ↗

— Uma Thurman

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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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