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To: reaganaut1

Here’s a list of people who do/did not have a college degree—good call—keep failures like these from messing up our society:

Abraham Lincoln

George Washington

William Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson

Clarence Darrow

Patrick Henry

Chuck Yeager

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Benjamin Franklin

Rush Limbaugh

Walter Cronkite

Mark Steyn

Wilbur and Orville Wright

G.K.Chesterton

Eric Hoffer

Harry Truman

Billy Wilder

Alfred Hitchcock

Harper Lee

Edith Wharton

John O’Hara

Harold Ross (founder of the New Yorker)

John Cheever

James Thurber

Noel Coward

Dorothy Parker

Bill Gates and Paul Allen (Microsoft)

Larry Ellison

Jane Austen

Thos. J Watson Sr (founder of IBM)

Thomas Edison

Henry Ford, Sr.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

David Geffen

Alex Haley

Walt Disney

Frank Lloyd Wright

Alexander Graham Bell

Michael Dell

Ted Turner

Steven Jobs

Eleanor Roosevelt

John D. Rockefeller

David Sarnoff (founder of NBC)

R. Buckminster Fuller

Steven Spielberg

John Steinbeck

Peter Jennings

Truman Capote

John Mackey (founder of Whole Foods)


17 posted on 03/31/2009 7:24:40 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
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To: Mac from Cleveland
The vast majority of famous people do not have college degrees.

Don't forget Thomas Edison, the most prolific inventor in history. He was home schooled.

24 posted on 03/31/2009 7:46:51 AM PDT by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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To: Mac from Cleveland

Oops, you did include Thomas Edison!


26 posted on 03/31/2009 7:47:47 AM PDT by Reeses (Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
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To: Mac from Cleveland

Michael Faraday was self-taught; as an apprentice to a bookbinder — his parents couldn’t afford to feed and clothe him — he read voraciously as he worked and developed an eye for detail and fed his rapacious mind to eventually go on to a position at the eminent Royal Society, alongside Sir Davy Humphrey and his ilk.


54 posted on 03/31/2009 8:39:35 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Mac from Cleveland
You missed one

Ed Heinemann

61 posted on 03/31/2009 8:50:07 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ( As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. - D)
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To: Mac from Cleveland

You forgot Rush Limbaugh


81 posted on 03/31/2009 9:51:44 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: Mac from Cleveland

Also Rich DeVos and Jay Van Andel, founders of Amway.


109 posted on 03/31/2009 11:41:57 AM PDT by upsdriver
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