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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 English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Black and white photograph of British writer Doris Lessing.

Youth

Gerard Manley Hopkins & Doris Lessing

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

Education

John Stuart Mill & Betsy DeVos

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Scandal

Thomas Jefferson & the Parliament of Singapore

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

Celebrity

Suetonius & Nikki Sixx

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Color portrait of English philosopher John Locke.

Ways of Learning

Aristotle & John Locke

Irish author Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington.

Socialite, actress, model, and Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick.

Food

Marguerite Gardiner & the Sedgwick Sisters

Painting of a woman with pale, fluffy hair wearing a dress with a large brooch

Bald gray-bearded man in a suit with his hand under his chin looking to the left

Migration

Marie-Thérèse of France & Ashraf Ghani

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

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The Future

Aristotle & Henry Noel-Fearn

Portrait of Francis Bacon in sixteenth-century armor.

Missing contributor image silhouette

Communication

Francis Bacon & Joan Didion

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Spies

Charles Dickens & Edward Snowden

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

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Celebrity

Charles Dickens & John Lennon

black and white pencil drawing of Moliere in an ornate frame

Black and white photograph of French novelist, essayist, and playwright Albert Camus.

Eros

Molière & Albert Camus

Color image of French philosopher Auguste Comte.

Black and white photograph of psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary.

Revolutions

Auguste Comte & Timothy Leary

English writer Christopher Marlowe.

French critic Roland Barthes.

Celebrity

Christopher Marlowe & Roland Barthes