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Commencement 2013: A sampling of advice to this year's college grads

Here are some memorable excerpts from this spring's college commencement addresses.

3. Transform data

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Author Toni Morrison speaks during an interview about her latest book "Home," during Google's online series, "Authors At Google," on Feb. 27, 2013 in New York.

  • By Ross Atkin Staff writer

"You - all of us - struggle to turn data into information, to turn that information into knowledge, and use that knowledge - we hope - to become wise." 

Toni Morrison

Novelist

At Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

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