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		icky on April 5, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask YC: Who are YOUR heroes? I'll break your 5 hero limit, as did pg, our local demihero. ;-) My list is heavy on scientists and philosophers, since I especially admire the ones who changed the way we think (for the better, IMHO). Socrates Epicurus Diogenes the Cynic Sun Tzu Shen Kuo Machiavelli Leonardo da Vinci (the Shen Kuo of the West! ;-) Galileo Kepler Hume Darwin Swift Franklin Jefferson Nietzsche Sun Yat-sen Wittgenstein Feynman Sagan

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