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A dam Smith (1723-July 17, 1790) was a Scottish economist and moral philosopher. His Inquir...
aeschylus
A eschylus was born in 525 BC at Eleusis and died in 456 BC.
He is generally regarded as the fo...
albert camus
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A lbert Camus (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and ...
anne sullivan
Anne was born on April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Though she was
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aristotle
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A ristotle (384 BCE - March 7, 322 BCE) was a Greek scientist and philosopher. Along with P...
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After...
ayn rand
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A yn Rand (February 2, 1905-March 6, 1982; first name rhymes with “mine"), born Aliss...
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informat...
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L udwig Wittgenstein began by trying to reduce all mathematics to logic and ended by findin...
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Maria Montessori was, in many ways, ahead of her time. Born in the town of
Chiarava...
mary mcleod bethune
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Scholarshi...
max stirner
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J ohann Kaspar Schmidt (October 25, 1806 - June 26, 1856), better known as Max Stirner (the...
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plato
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P lato(c. May 21? 427 BC - c. 347 BC) was an immensely influential classical Greek philosop...
pythagoras
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P ythagoras (582 BC - 496 BC) was an Ionian mathematician and philosopher, known best for f...
sarah winnemucca
Born the daughter of Chief Winnemucca of the Paiutes, a tribe in Nevada and
California, S...
shinichi suzuki
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talent ca...
theodor adorno
T heodor Wisengrund Adorno was born in Frankfurt on September 11, 1903 as Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrun...
vine deloria, jr.
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Vine Victor Deloria Jr. was born in 1933 in Martin, South Dakota. ...
xenocrates
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X enocrates, of Chalcedon (396 - 314 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scholarch or rector of...
zhuang zi
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Zhuang Zi(pinyin), Chuang Tzu (W-G), or Chuang Tse (Chinese , literally meaning “Maste...
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