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Robert Frost - is there anything he couldn't say in a poem?

Galileo - As a single man, he stood up to the only world super-power of his time: the catholic church. His ideas, it has been proven, weren't new, but his conviction was noble.

Siddhartha Gautama - If people thought Nietche was audacious for declaring the death of one god, Gautama must have been (what's a word that means 1,000 times more audacious than audacious??) really really audacious for declaring the non-existence of THOUSANDS of gods!
 
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Robert Frost - is there anything he couldn't say in a poem?

Galileo - As a single man, he stood up to the only world super-power of his time: the catholic church. His ideas, it has been proven, weren't new, but his conviction was noble.

Siddhartha Gautama - If people thought Nietche was audacious for declaring the death of one god, Gautama must have been (what's a word that means 1,000 times more audacious than audacious??) really really audacious for declaring the non-existence of THOUSANDS of gods!

I agree, it takes a phenomenal amount of courage to stand up against something everyone around you holds to be true - even if you know it isn't. :smile:
 

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yeah galileo is a good one.

id say Ernesto "Che" Guvara. whatever you political leaning his whole life story is amazing and his purist approach to communism makes other leaders seem....uncommunist. shame he is now a consumer good for a system he dispised
 

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yeah galileo is a good one.

id say Ernesto "Che" Guvara. whatever you political leaning his whole life story is amazing and his purist approach to communism makes other leaders seem....uncommunist. shame he is now a consumer good for a system he dispised

Shame he had all those people executed.

I don't think a murderer belongs on this list.
 

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Neither do half the people listed, but everyone has a perspective. Someone took great offense to one of mine in a PM and when I explained my reason they were OK with it!

Good point. I just feel like Mike Brady trying to explain to Bobby why having Jesse James as a hero isn't the best idea.
 

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Good point. I just feel like Mike Brady trying to explain to Bobby why having Jesse James as a hero isn't the best idea.

I really don't have the answer. Speaking for myself I have a much different perspective about world and personal issues today than I did in 1968. I have really learned a great deal from life's lessons, but also from differing viewpoints....I kind of like Jesse James. I know his wife.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A3hwxag5tk
 
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Theodore Roosevelt

-he threw a lobbyist out of his second floor window when he refused to leave.
-he got SHOT!! by an assasin and then went on stage immediatly afterwards and delivered a TWO HOUR speech telling those in attendance that "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
 
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Yeah Lister is cool! I also think Brunel and some of the engineering greats were amazing.