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Mine are Jesus, Mother Teresa, Gandhi and C S Lewis
"Oh, tis love that makes the world go round" - Lewis Carroll
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Oskar Schindler
Raoul Wallenberg
Andrew Carnegie
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Mary Robinson

Men & women who didn't just talk about what could or should be done they just went and did the very best they could.
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
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Fran wrote:Oskar Schindler
Raoul Wallenberg
Andrew Carnegie
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Mary Robinson

Men & women who didn't just talk about what could or should be done they just went and did the very best they could.
Wasnt Andrew Carnigie the one who held a production contest in his steel mils, the employees who produced the most wouldnt get fired?
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Bighuey wrote:
Fran wrote:Oskar Schindler
Raoul Wallenberg
Andrew Carnegie
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Mary Robinson

Men & women who didn't just talk about what could or should be done they just went and did the very best they could.
Wasnt Andrew Carnigie the one who held a production contest in his steel mils, the employees who produced the most wouldnt get fired?
Maybe he did but he also set up the very first free public libraries & for that alone he's my hero. By the way I didn't say they weren't all flawed human beings but at least they did some good.
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Fran wrote:
Bighuey wrote:
Fran wrote:Oskar Schindler
Raoul Wallenberg
Andrew Carnegie
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Mary Robinson

Men & women who didn't just talk about what could or should be done they just went and did the very best they could.
Wasnt Andrew Carnigie the one who held a production contest in his steel mils, the employees who produced the most wouldnt get fired?
Maybe he did but he also set up the very first free public libraries & for that alone he's my hero. By the way I didn't say they weren't all flawed human beings but at least they did some good.
Thats true, no one is perfect. Free libraries are quite an accomplishment.
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not the book writer but the Star Trek character.

I really admire being logical in people and myself of course
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Ive always tried to be logical but in dealing with women, especially wives it dosent always work.
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