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MichaelAngeloThe world is filled with great people who have shared their wisdom. Some of it, so great, that it has changed the course of history, changed people’s lives, and passed the test of time. Click on any of the names below for a brief biography and more quotes from that specific person. Reflect on the history of the individual, their contributions, and their experiences. Then, reflect on how their wisdom can be applied in your life.

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Adams, Henry Brooks
Adams, John
Aesop
Angelou, Maya
Alexander The Great
Antisthenes
Aristotle
Arthur, Kay
Asimov, Isaac
Aquinas, Thomas
Augustine, Saint
Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw
Aurelius, Marcus
Bacon, Francis
Barclay, William
Bastardi, Joe
Beecher, Henry Ward
Begg, Alistair
Bierce, Ambrose
Boetcker, William
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Brooks, Phillips
Bunyan, John
Cabret, Hugo
Caesar, Julius
Calvin, John
Cather, Willa
Chaplin, Charlie
Chesterton, Gilbert
Churchill, Winston
Cicero, Marcus
Columbus, Christopher
Conant, James
Cromwell, Oliver
Curie, Marie
Dante
da Vinci, Leonardo
Democritus
Descartes, René
Dickens, Charles
Dryden, John
Drucker, Peter
Durant, Will
Edison, Thomas
Einstein, Albert
Eliot, George
Emerson, Waldo
Epictetus
Epicurus
Ewing, Sam
Forbes, Malcolm S.
Ford, Henry
Francis of Assisi, Saint
Franklin, Benjamin
Frost, Robert
Galilei, Galileo
Gandhi, Mohandas
Geisel, Theodor Seuss
Gunn, Robin
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm
Huxley, Aldous
James, William
Jefferson, Thomas
Johnson, Samuel
Kant, Immanuel
Keller, Helen
Kennedy, John F.
Khan, Genghis
King Jr., Martin Luther
Lewis, Clive Staples
Lincoln, Abraham
Locke, John
Lombardi, Vince
Luther, Martin
McCrae, John
Mead, Margaret
Michelangelo
Mother Teresa
Newton, Isaac
Newton, John
Nin, Anais
Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Pascal, Blaise
Patton, George
Peale, Norman Vincent
Plato
Polybius
Pope, Alexander
Reagan, Ronald
Rodney, Caesar
Rogers, Will
Roosevelt, Franklin
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus [the younger]
Schuller, Robert
Socrates
Solomon
Sophocles
Sowell, Thomas
Spinoza, Baruch
Stewart, Potter
Stowe, Harriet
Thatcher, Margaret
The Address of Darrel Scott To Congress
The Prayer of St. Francis
Thoreau, Henry David
Twain, Mark
Van Dyke, Henry
Virgil
Voltaire
Washington, George
Wesley, John
Wilde, Oscar
Wilson, Woodrow
Wollstonecraft-Shelley, Mary

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