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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

Black and white photograph of English writer Virginia Woolf.

Black and white photograph of French writer and film director Marguerite Duras.

Death

Virginia Woolf & Marguerite Duras

Photograph of American forger George Bidwell.

Photograph of Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas.

Animals

George Bidwell & Emmanuel Levinas

Painting of Thomas Hobbes

color photograph of Victor Frankl with his hand on his chin looking pensive

Comedy

Thomas Hobbes & Viktor Frankl

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

Migration

Charles Gunter & Free State Project

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

American lawyer Clarence Darrow.

Crimes & Punishments

Friedrich Nietzsche & Clarence Darrow

Australian poet and essayist Les Murray.

Food

Ovid & Les Murray

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

E.C. Krupp

States of Mind

Emily Dickinson & E.C. Krupp

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Missing contributor image silhouette

Celebrity

Charles Dickens & John Lennon

Freedom

Knights of Labor & Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hans Holbein portrait of Sir Thomas More.

Happiness

Thomas More and Miya Tokumitsu

Statue of the Persian poet Ferdowsi.

Character from the television series The Wire.

Politics

Ferdowsi & Ed Burns and William Zorzi

Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope wearing a blue sash.

Missing contributor image silhouette

Lines of Work

Philip Dormer Stanhope & Louis C.K.

Photograph of American novelist and short story writer Stephen Crane.

Photograph of American writer William S. Burroughs.

Intoxication

Stephen Crane & William S. Burroughs

Black and white photograph of West-Indian-born civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael.

Revolutions

José Martí & Stokely Carmichael