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Not silly characters from comic books, but real flesh and blood larger-than-life persons.
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(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within." -
Willy Brandt (I don´t consider him a hero in the classical sense, but I have greatest respect for him)Blah -
FDR- A great war time President who also proved you could fight the depression without taxing industry to death.
George Washington- This guy was a conservative revolutionary who really didn't want to run for office and who peacefully gave the Presidency because he wanted to go home and be a farmer. He also helped set up the first modern Republic, establish a university, not only did he free all of his slaves upon his death but he advocated everyone else to do so as well.
Gandhi- Should that peaceful persation is often achieves greater results then violence and you don't hurt innocent people in the process. Now, that was a man of moral consciousness.
Isaac Newton- A man who was a true scientist and who didn't do his work for fame or money. He wrote his papers in Latin (not English which the commoners read) because he just wanted to discuss the nature of the universe with other educated people.
Henry Ford- This is a man who had a lot of faults and who failed a lot. What I admire was he kept working at achieving his goals until he reached them. I true lesson in perserverience.
Thomas Jefferson- Another founding President who wrote (or co-wrote) two of the most documents in American history. Sure he had sex outside of marriage but if we didn't have them then the US would have ended up in pieces like Gran Granada or in a series of dictatorships like in Mexico.
There are many more people I admire but six is more then enough for now.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I dont have heroes or heroines
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FDR - I agree with Oerdin
MLK - takes a strong man to be non-violent in the face of the sh1t he dealt with
Malcom X - personified renegade attitude towards injustice
Thomas Paine - "common sense" and much more
everyone who protested against unjust wars EDIT
for the right reasons)
Last edited by Sava; May 8, 2003, 13:41.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Even those who did it just to get in the sack with the hot hippie chick?Originally posted by Sava
everyone who protested against unjust wars“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"Comment
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if you're going to nitpick! I MUST EDIT!To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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everyone who protested against unjust wars
only those...Even those who did it just to get in the sack with the hot hippie chick?
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I don't blame you Japher. You haven't had the luxury of being exposed to the right information.
If you can turn off FoXnews for a second, you might learn something about your beloved president.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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A short list:
Albert Einstein
Richard Feynman
Petr Kropotkin
Emma Goldman
Emiliano Zapata
Nestor Makhno
Eric Blair
Henry David Thoreau
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
-BokononComment
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Henry Rollins - taught me the value of working your as$ off to get where you need to be, and the value of sobriety and perseverance.
Umberto Eco - Favorite writer and thinker. Wish I could write half as well as he does
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Winston Churchill - Perseverance/ grace under fire
Barry Sanders/Joe Dumars - Class acts in the world of the trash-talkin', coach-strangling, sports."Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.Comment
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The hot hippie chick.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"Comment
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I differentiate between doing something heroic and being a hero. I don't have any heroes, and I never will. There are certain traits in certain people I greatly admire, but everyone is human and has their failings. I can't think of a single person I would put on a pedestal and say "now there's a hero". Some of their actions, yes, the person as a whole, no."The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
"you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
"I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - DissidentComment
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My one personal hero is Jan Hubicka. Author or co-author of, among other stuff:
- aalib (ASCII art library), a very cutely geeky way to display graphics. Just have a look at the BB demo!
- XaoS, the best optimized fractal zooming program I know of, and quite possibly also the one that is best suited for creating pretty pictures
- Koules, a very original and addictive arcade-like game
He works at SuSE labs nowadays, apparently porting stuff to x86-64 (
!) and enhancing the optimizer of gcc (!)
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my mum
justice is mightComment
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