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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA. What do they have in common?. What do they have in common?. Each has sold 100 million copies. Books that changed the world.

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  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA

  2. What do they have in common?

  3. What do they have in common? Each has sold 100 million copies

  4. Books that changed the world For Centuries, books have been written in an attempt to share knowledge, inspiration, and discoveries. Sometimes those books make such an impact that they change the way the world thinks about things.

  5. The written word

  6. Tyndale translated the bible into English for the first time. The use of the printing presses made this available and understandable to many more. William Tyndale 1525

  7. "Lord! Open the King of England's eyes." • William Tyndale was executed by being strangled, revived and then burned at the stake.

  8. Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  9. William WilberforceOn the Abolition of the Slave Trade “If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”

  10. William WilberforceOn the Abolition of the Slave Trade “If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.” 1787

  11. Virtue can only flourish among equals… Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

  12. 1859 We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Evolution

  13. How dare you! I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

  14. William Shakespeare’s Complete Works (First Folio) (1623)

  15. What books have been most influential for you?

  16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G6H2tQCaOA

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