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A conversation I found myself a part of earlier today, and a healthy dose of curiosity begs me to ask this question--If you could meet five people, dead or alive, who would it be?

My list is something like this:

Immanuel Kant
Mahatma Ghandi
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
Noam Chomsky
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Good question! As for me, I would choose:

Martin Luther King, Jr.

John Coltrane

Karl Marx

Charles Darwin

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hmmm....

Douglas Adams
General Robert E Lee
Billy Connolly
Jane Austen
Emma Thompson

There are many, many others, but those pop into my head right now.
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Excellent question sweet pea :D

Umm, lets see...

1)Jesus Christ
2)Jane Austen
4)William Shakespeare
5)Beatrix Potter

Dude my list could go on of course! :P But those would be of particular interest :wink:
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1. Charles Bukowski
2. Hunter S Thompson
3. Stephen Fry
4. Johnny Depp (Sorry, but its got to be done)
5. George Orwell
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Bill Hicks
Robert Anton Wilson
Winston Churchill
Bob Marley
Thucydides
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Lenin
Weber
chuck palahniuk
shakespeare
Edward Norton
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Good thread idea. I can't narrow down the people I would like to meet so here are some more.

Jim Henson
Paul Morphy
Lee Marvin
Billie Holiday
Galen
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I'm going to go with mostly all dead criminals:

Martin Luther King
Henry David Thoreau
Ghandi
Voltairine de Cleyre
Thomas Paine
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In no paticular order

1. Sir Author Conan Doyle
2. Teddy Roosevelt
3. Michael Collins
4. Mary Queen of Scotts
5. Thomas Jefferson
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Nelson Mandela - his life from his mouth.

Queen Elizabeth 1s t- a powerful woman when it was hard.

Edgar Allan Poe - was he a little crazy or just brilliant.

Selim 1 - architecture, harem and ottoman history.

Nostradamus - his life and thoughts.

Mary Magdalen

I would love to learn from these people.there lives, language, thoughts and ideas . mostly I would love to understand them.
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1. Oscar Wilde
2. Ghandi
3. Ryan Buell
4. Jane Austen
5. My aunt Twyla.
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Robert E. Howard
Bix Beiderbecke
Barack Obama - Just to see what kind of a guy he is
Hank Williams
Lana Turner pant pant
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1. Rupert Brooke
2. Adolph Hitler
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
5. Horatio Nelson
( In no particular order )
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1. My uncle Charley who died in the flu epidemic in WWI
2. My best friend Barb who died way too young
3. Mark Twain
4. Jasper Fforde
5. President Truman
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