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Classical bust of Thucydides.

Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville wearing a black suit and standing in front of a chair.

Time

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

American poet Anne Bradstreet.

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

Family

Anne Bradstreet & Franz Kafka

Engraving of Roman poet Horace.

Color engraving of Italian poet, scholar, and humanist Petrarch.

Communication

Horace & Petrarch

American baseball player Yogi Berra.

American basketball player Charles Barkley.

Sports & Games

Yogi Berra & Charles Barkley

Philanthropy

Edward III & Carol Liu

Hans Holbein portrait of Sir Thomas More.

Happiness

Thomas More and Miya Tokumitsu

Photograph of German literary critic Walter Benjamin.

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Arts & Letters

Walter Benjamin & Andy Warhol

Sepia image of a stern-looking older man with heavy side whiskers

Migration

Charles Gunter & Free State Project

Color painting early Chinese philosopher Mengzi.

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

Lines of Work

Mencius & John Ruskin

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American musician, songwriter, and co-founder of Mötley Crüe Nikki Sixx.

Celebrity

Suetonius & Nikki Sixx

Portrait bust of presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer.

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

Politics

Homer & John Milton

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

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Religion

John Milton & Reinhold Niebuhr

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

States of War

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

Color mosaic of earl Church father St. John Chrysostom.

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Comedy

St. John Chrysostom & Charles Baudelaire

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Engraving of Robert Herrick

Youth

Asclepiades & Robert Herrick