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Wheel of Fortune from the Carmina Burana.

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Rule of Law

Carmina Burana & Isabella Whitney

Sculpture bust of Roman teacher and writer Quintilian.

Black and white photograph of American entertainer Joan Rivers.

Comedy

Quintilian & Joan Rivers

German writer Friedrich Schiller.

photograph of David Foster Wallace speaking at a podium

Arts & Letters

Friedrich Schiller & David Foster Wallace

American poet Anne Bradstreet.

Black and white photograph of German-language writer Franz Kafka.

Family

Anne Bradstreet & Franz Kafka

Portrait of Francis Bacon in sixteenth-century armor.

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Communication

Francis Bacon & Joan Didion

Portrait of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in a nun's habit.

Time

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & Susan Sontag

Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Scottish anthropologist and historian of religion James G. Frazer.

Magic Shows

Michel de Montaigne & James G. Frazer

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Travel

Charles Baudelaire & W.H. Auden

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Color portrait of English philosopher John Locke.

Ways of Learning

Aristotle & John Locke

Color painting early Chinese philosopher Mengzi.

Black and white photograph of a young John Ruskin wearing a suit.

Lines of Work

Mencius & John Ruskin

Sculpture bust of Greek dramatist Euripides.

Rivalry & Feud

Euripides & Eliza Haywood

Education

Theodore Dwight Weld & Chinese Communist Party

Black and white print of English politician, essayist, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay.

Youth

Thomas Babington Macaulay & W.H. Auden

Drawing of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.

British philosopher, logician, and social critic Bertrand Russell.

Religion

Søren Kierkegaard & Bertrand Russell

Engraving of William Shakespeare from the first folio edition.

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

Book of Nature

William Shakespeare & Friedrich Nietzsche