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Which famous people do you admire?

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Which famous people (past and present) do you admire?

There are many people who I hold in high esteem, and I have a big list of them which is continually expanding. This is it so far:

Epicurus
Leonardo da Vinci
Nicolaus Copernicus
Michelangelo
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Baruch Spinoza
Isaac Newton
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Voltaire
Benjamin Franklin
David Hume
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Adam Weishaupt
Jeremy Bentham
James Madison
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mary Wollstonecraft
William Wilberforce
Napoleon
Ludwig van Beethoven
Robert Owen
Richard Carlile
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Darwin
Frederic Chopin
Henry David Thoreau
Frederick Douglass
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Tubman
Ulysses S. Grant
Ferdinand Lassalle
Thomas Henry Huxley
James A. Garfield
Dmitri Mendeleev
Victoria Woodhull
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Edward Carpenter
Friedrich Nietzsche
Eduard Bernstein
Eugene V. Debs
Sigmund Freud
Nikola Tesla
Keir Hardie
Beatrice Webb
Theodore Roosevelt
Sidney Webb
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Marie Curie
W. E. B. Du Bois
Mahatma Gandhi
Friedrich Ebert
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
Bertrand Russell
Otto Wels
Albert Einstein
Helen Keller
Alexander Kerensky
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Clement Attlee
John Maynard Keynes
Eleanor Roosevelt
B. R. Ambedkar
Alexander Oparin
Arthur Szyk
Georges Lemaitre
Einar Gerhardsen
Aneurin Bevan
Salvador Allende
Nicholas Winton
Irena Sendler
Kim Il-sung
Alan Turing
Rosa Parks
Harold Wilson
John F. Kennedy
Nelson Mandela
Kim Jong-suk
Kim Dae-jung
Ralph Miliband
Jimmy Carter
Tony Benn
Malcolm X
Olof Palme
Kim Yong-nam
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anne Frank
Harvey Milk
Neil Armstrong
Desmond Tutu
Dennis Skinner
Yuri Gagarin
Carl Sagan
Richard Dawkins
Bernie Sanders
Stephen Hawking
Kim Jong-il
Ri Chun-hee
Al Gore
Slavoj Zizek
Jeremy Corbyn
Jill Stein
John McDonnell
Moon Jae-in
Bill Gates
Bill Nye
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Benoit Hamon
Lim Su-kyung
Ed Miliband
Andy Burnham
Kim Jong-un
Kim Yo-jong
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Malala Yousafzai
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No Michael Dukakis?
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Red wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:12 pmNo Michael Dukakis?
Do you admire Michael Dukakis?

I don't know enough about him. Maybe you could educate me.
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 2:48 am
Red wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:12 pmNo Michael Dukakis?
Do you admire Michael Dukakis?

I don't know enough about him. Maybe you could educate me.
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Oh yeah, what about Robert M. La Follette?
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Red wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:03 pm Oh yeah, what about Robert M. La Follette?
Haven't done that much research into him. All I know is that he was a damn sight better than Coolidge and Davis.
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Red wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:12 pmNo Michael Dukakis?
Red wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:03 pm Oh yeah, what about Robert M. La Follette?
They're both on there now, as well as Mohammad Mosaddegh, Christine Jorgensen, Millicent Fawcett, Jacobo Arbenz, Belva Ann Lockwood, James B. Weaver, Chelsea Manning and Charles Fourier.
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: Tue Sep 04, 2018 6:39 am
Red wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:12 pmNo Michael Dukakis?
Red wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:03 pm Oh yeah, what about Robert M. La Follette?
They're both on there now, as well as Mohammad Mosaddegh, Christine Jorgensen, Millicent Fawcett, Jacobo Arbenz, Belva Ann Lockwood, James B. Weaver, Chelsea Manning and Charles Fourier.
Also Magnus Hirschfeld and A. J. Ayer.

Would include Agent Smith if he was a real person.
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:08 am
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrote: Tue Sep 04, 2018 6:39 am
Red wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:12 pmNo Michael Dukakis?
Red wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:03 pm Oh yeah, what about Robert M. La Follette?
They're both on there now, as well as Mohammad Mosaddegh, Christine Jorgensen, Millicent Fawcett, Jacobo Arbenz, Belva Ann Lockwood, James B. Weaver, Chelsea Manning and Charles Fourier.
Also Magnus Hirschfeld and A. J. Ayer.

Would include Agent Smith if he was a real person.
Also added Robyn Ochs, Michael Foot, Victor Jara, Franz Boas, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, George McGovern, Jawaharlal Nehru, Evo Morales, George Washington Carver, George Soros, Sojourner Truth, Olympe de Gouges, Solomon Schonfeld, Frank Foley and Elizabeth Freeman.
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