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Painting of an older Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Photograph of English novelist John Fowles.

The Sea

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & John Fowles

Portrait of Francis Bacon in sixteenth-century armor.

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Communication

Francis Bacon & Joan Didion

Australian poet and essayist Les Murray.

Food

Ovid & Les Murray

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Henry David Thoreau

Animals

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Luck

Marcus Tullius Cicero & Samuel Butler

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Painted portrait of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

About Money

Aristotle & Jeremy Bentham

Black and white image of English philosopher and political theorist John Stuart Mill.

Education

John Stuart Mill & Betsy DeVos

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Fear

Margery Kempe & Central Intelligence Agency

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson sitting next to a desk.

E.C. Krupp

States of Mind

Emily Dickinson & E.C. Krupp

Portrait of American general and first president George Washington.

President of the United States and five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Future

George Washington & Dwight D. Eisenhower

Black and white photograph of American writer and exponent of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Fashion

Ralph Waldo Emerson & K-HOLE

Hans Holbein portrait of Sir Thomas More.

Happiness

Thomas More and Miya Tokumitsu

Title page of A Dissertation on Locks and Lockpicking, 1856

Technology

Linus Yale Jr. & Co. & Google Security Blog

Philanthropy

Edward III & Carol Liu

Cameo portrait of Charles Brockden Brown

Democracy

Charles Brockden Brown & Alice Duer Miller