For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

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• Voltaire

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• George Orwell

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• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  Thursday, Aug 28, 1749
  Thursday, Mar 22, 1832

• Plato

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• Napoleon Bonaparte

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• Aldous Huxley

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  Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
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• Walt Disney

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• Walt Whitman

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• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• William Blake

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• Stephen Hawking

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