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| 19. Albert Einstein or Jonas Salk |
| -Best person of the 20th Century? |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Aug-08-10 03:47 PM |
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Henry Agard Wallace |
Taverner |
Aug-08-10 03:48 PM |
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agreed, him and my parents. |
roguevalley |
Aug-09-10 01:07 AM |
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Radical Activist |
Aug-09-10 02:17 AM |
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You thought I meant the other Wallace, didn't ya? |
Taverner |
Aug-09-10 04:10 PM |
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I just responded in the wrong place accidentally. |
Radical Activist |
Aug-09-10 04:20 PM |
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he was indeed a good man, a great man |
Douglas Carpenter |
Aug-09-10 11:35 PM |
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Tough, and excellent, question. |
saltpoint |
Aug-08-10 03:50 PM |
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How about Samuel Beckett... was in the French Resistance, and wrote 'Waiting for Godot' |
LooseWilly |
Aug-08-10 04:57 PM |
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Beckett's loyalists make sense and he cuts quite |
saltpoint |
Aug-08-10 06:10 PM |
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Waiting for Godot? |
hfojvt |
Aug-09-10 02:31 AM |
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Yes, Godot. |
LooseWilly |
Aug-09-10 06:57 PM |
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I Am A Lifelong Existentialist... |
Steely_Dan |
Aug-09-10 09:03 PM |
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A friend once said something that explained... |
LooseWilly |
Aug-09-10 11:47 PM |
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Wow...Exactly. |
Steely_Dan |
Aug-10-10 12:37 AM |
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Yeah, I got lucky to have the not-obviousness pointed out to me. |
LooseWilly |
Aug-10-10 12:51 AM |
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Easy : Mahatma Ghandi . |
UndertheOcean |
Aug-08-10 03:51 PM |
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Second the motion |
CanonRay |
Aug-08-10 03:54 PM |
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yup |
Warren Stupidity |
Aug-08-10 04:14 PM |
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Agreed |
tinrobot |
Aug-08-10 05:25 PM |
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Paul Robeson |
Starry Messenger |
Aug-08-10 03:51 PM |
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I have to go with DuBois. He's been right about everything |
EFerrari |
Aug-09-10 10:17 PM |
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Paul Robeson was my first thought. The world's only true |
Solomon |
Aug-10-10 07:25 AM |
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Al Gore |
undeterred |
Aug-08-10 03:52 PM |
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I wouldn't--the idea that one person, out of the billions on this planet, is somehow the best, is |
niyad |
Aug-08-10 03:53 PM |
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What about |
hfojvt |
Aug-09-10 02:35 AM |
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It's So Strange... |
Steely_Dan |
Aug-09-10 09:01 PM |
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Probably MLK |
zipplewrath |
Aug-08-10 03:59 PM |
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Name removed |
Aug-08-10 04:53 PM |
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Was he really ? I did not know that . |
UndertheOcean |
Aug-08-10 05:08 PM |
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What is your source for that claim? nt |
oberliner |
Aug-08-10 05:11 PM |
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This would suggest that you're talking out of your ass. |
tuvor |
Aug-08-10 05:54 PM |
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clown |
H2O Man |
Aug-08-10 08:19 PM |
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Hit and run idiocy, I see...... |
marmar |
Aug-09-10 09:01 AM |
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George Bailey. |
RUMMYisFROSTED |
Aug-08-10 04:01 PM |
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He was a little tough on his kids |
oberliner |
Aug-08-10 04:03 PM |
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Hey... if fictional characters count what about Atticus Finch? |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Aug-08-10 04:05 PM |
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Or Scout? |
RUMMYisFROSTED |
Aug-08-10 04:06 PM |
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x |
RUMMYisFROSTED |
Aug-08-10 04:11 PM |
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ahhhhhhhhh. Atticus Finch! Great nominee. |
BrklynLiberal |
Aug-08-10 05:10 PM |
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How about the woman who created Atticus, Harper Lee. nt |
Liquorice |
Aug-08-10 05:45 PM |
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Leaning towards Norman Borlaug. (nt) |
Posteritatis |
Aug-08-10 04:04 PM |
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I had to google that name :( |
OilPastelsArtist |
Aug-09-10 09:19 PM |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Sebastian Doyle |
Aug-08-10 04:08 PM |
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A good choice. |
white_wolf |
Aug-09-10 02:02 AM |
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Ted Overton. |
RUMMYisFROSTED |
Aug-08-10 04:12 PM |
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Dudley Bradley |
taterguy |
Aug-08-10 04:16 PM |
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Dudley Bradley of UNC basketball fame? |
NCarolinawoman |
Aug-09-10 10:16 PM |
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Albert Einstein or Jonas Salk |
OmahaBlueDog |
Aug-08-10 04:17 PM |
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Albert Schweitzer is up there, too |
Warpy |
Aug-08-10 04:36 PM |
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In purely RELATIVE terms Khrushchev deserves a weird mention |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Aug-08-10 04:19 PM |
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Thank you for the perspective. By many criteria, NK deserved a Nobel Peace Prize |
T Wolf |
Aug-08-10 05:26 PM |
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khrushchev : stalin :: |
BOG PERSON |
Aug-08-10 05:49 PM |
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Tie - Alexander Fleming - Jonas Salk nt |
Crabby Appleton |
Aug-08-10 04:22 PM |
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It's a toss-up between Albert Einstein and Jerry Garcia. |
Warren DeMontague |
Aug-08-10 05:03 PM |
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FDR |
Mudoria |
Aug-08-10 05:09 PM |
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There are WAY too many to choose from. |
LWolf |
Aug-08-10 05:10 PM |
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What? No votes for Ronald Reagan? |
raouldukelives |
Aug-08-10 05:10 PM |
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That is a very interesting and thought provoking question..have to give it some careful |
BrklynLiberal |
Aug-08-10 05:13 PM |
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Mother Theresa? |
TheBigotBasher |
Aug-08-10 05:15 PM |
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Alexander Fleming |
ThomWV |
Aug-08-10 05:20 PM |
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Are we talking "good," as in benefiting mankind the most? |
Wednesdays |
Aug-08-10 05:21 PM |
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Gandhi |
Odin2005 |
Aug-08-10 05:23 PM |
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Howard Zinn |
another saigon |
Aug-08-10 05:26 PM |
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FDR nt |
Liquorice |
Aug-08-10 05:27 PM |
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The men and women of the Red Army n/t |
BOG PERSON |
Aug-08-10 05:41 PM |
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Ohio Joe |
Ohio Joe |
Aug-08-10 05:43 PM |
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Smedley Butler. n/t |
lumberjack_jeff |
Aug-08-10 05:49 PM |
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As far as Politicians go I would say FDR otherwise |
rbrnmw |
Aug-08-10 05:56 PM |
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Louis Armstrong |
immoderate |
Aug-08-10 05:59 PM |
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I'll go with Mohandas K. Ghandi |
The Second Stone |
Aug-08-10 06:03 PM |
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John Lennon. n/t |
northofdenali |
Aug-08-10 06:08 PM |
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My Mom |
NoPasaran |
Aug-08-10 06:08 PM |
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the chinese citizen who faced down tanks in tienamen square. |
Donnachaidh |
Aug-08-10 06:19 PM |
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Good answer |
nevergiveup |
Aug-08-10 06:35 PM |
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neda... |
BOG PERSON |
Aug-08-10 06:29 PM |
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Huey Long. |
stevedeshazer |
Aug-08-10 06:39 PM |
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FDR |
Little Star |
Aug-08-10 06:43 PM |
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Somebody we've never heard of; a nun gunned down in Argentina |
Recursion |
Aug-08-10 06:44 PM |
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is that so? |
BOG PERSON |
Aug-08-10 07:39 PM |
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Gandhi |
OmmmSweetOmmm |
Aug-08-10 07:52 PM |
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Two choices: |
H2O Man |
Aug-08-10 08:20 PM |
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che guevara |
BOG PERSON |
Aug-08-10 08:22 PM |
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Best person is defined so loosely that it must be delineated |
hyphenate |
Aug-08-10 08:57 PM |
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Best? Or greatest? Different things entirely. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Aug-08-10 09:32 PM |
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Nelson Mandela. |
applegrove |
Aug-08-10 10:17 PM |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan |
Tsiyu |
Aug-08-10 10:35 PM |
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Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry |
AsahinaKimi |
Aug-08-10 10:39 PM |
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Jimmy Carter would make my short list |
wickerwoman |
Aug-09-10 01:54 AM |
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hmm if were doing fictional chars |
white_wolf |
Aug-09-10 02:01 AM |
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Another vote for Gandhi |
Radical Activist |
Aug-09-10 02:20 AM |
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Heres my short list: Jacques Derridas, Michel Foucault, MLK, Carl Sagan, Iggy Pop. |
Erose999 |
Aug-09-10 08:30 AM |
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Mr Derrida is now going to write a book about the "s" you added to his name |
tishaLA |
Aug-09-10 09:59 PM |
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Stanislav Petrov |
Commie Pinko Dirtbag |
Aug-09-10 04:14 PM |
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Mahatma Gandhi. nt |
Cal33 |
Aug-09-10 04:18 PM |
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Al Gore |
Uncle Joe |
Aug-09-10 04:22 PM |
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Atticus Finch n/t |
cynatnite |
Aug-09-10 04:22 PM |
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Raoul Wallenberg and others who risked their lives to save Jews from the Nazis |
karynnj |
Aug-09-10 04:39 PM |
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I disagree, Gore did great good during his career. |
Uncle Joe |
Aug-09-10 05:08 PM |
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I agree that Carter's Camp David treaty was good and I agree that Gore |
karynnj |
Aug-09-10 06:36 PM |
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The "greatest complimentary partial solution" is the Internet; itself. |
Uncle Joe |
Aug-10-10 10:41 AM |
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And Carter is a decent human being -- that rare quality missing |
Cal33 |
Aug-09-10 06:41 PM |
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I woul;d argue that many are |
karynnj |
Aug-10-10 02:46 PM |
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Best by what measure? Things like this are impossible - but Emma Goldman deserves a mention. n/t |
PanoramaIsland |
Aug-09-10 06:47 PM |
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Bob Dylan. n/t |
TransitJohn |
Aug-09-10 07:00 PM |
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Woody Guthrie and the Depression Photographers.... |
WCGreen |
Aug-09-10 07:00 PM |
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Probably someone few, if any, of us heard of. |
Kaleva |
Aug-09-10 08:13 PM |
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Aldo Leopold |
Mendocino |
Aug-09-10 08:42 PM |
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FDR - Without a Doubt n/t |
Steely_Dan |
Aug-09-10 08:46 PM |
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without a doubt - Soviet naval commander Vasili Arkhipov |
Douglas Carpenter |
Aug-09-10 09:30 PM |
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FDR |
Barack2theFuture |
Aug-09-10 09:53 PM |
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Rachel Carson |
NCarolinawoman |
Aug-09-10 10:09 PM |
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When I awake and hear the birds, |
Mendocino |
Aug-09-10 11:13 PM |
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Jonas Salk comes to mind... |
JCMach1 |
Aug-10-10 04:21 AM |
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I have to agree with the FDR nomination! |
DailyGrind51 |
Aug-10-10 07:03 AM |
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Ghandi |
ceile |
Aug-10-10 02:57 PM |
#115 |
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