"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development;……" — Joseph Stiglitz

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• Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. — Joseph Stiglitz
• I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor… — Joseph Stiglitz
• I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene
• I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana… — Paul Engle
• I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more… — Uma Thurman
• I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I… — Claudia Gray
• It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than… — David Foster Wallace
• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship… — Harold E. Varmus
• As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus
• My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning… — Joseph Stiglitz
• I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. — Stephen Cole Kleene

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