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• Dante Alighieri
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• Charles Darwin
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• T. S. Eliot
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• Richard Feynman
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Jesus
• John Keats
• Helen Keller
• John F. Kennedy
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Laozi
• Timothy Leary
• Muhammad
• Thomas Paine
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Bertrand Russell
• William Saroyan
• William Shakespeare
• George Bernard Shaw
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Starhawk
• Leo Tolstoy
• Virgil
• Voltaire
• Anonymous
Literary works — Dune
• Fahrenheit 451
• Leaves of Grass
• The Little Prince
• The Lord of the Rings
• 1984
• Paradise Lost
• Principia Discordia
• The Prophet
• Pride and Prejudice
• A Tale of Two Cities
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• Fury
• Groundhog Day
• Harvey
• The Hours
• It's a Wonderful Life
• Life of Brian
• Magnolia
• The Matrix
• Memento
• Olympus Has Fallen
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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• Taxi Driver
• Three Days of the Condor
• United 93
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• Blackadder
• Breaking Bad
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• Gilmore Girls
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