[Mr. Shankly]

Pam gets the Coen Bros. and I get frickin' James Cameron?! 🧱 Uh... thanks.

😠

[Wombi]

[cartoken]

[Saoirse]

Magnifico, Jhereko!

[Xavygravy]

Thanks Jhereko! I do love that film 😉

[alelsupreme]

I get the Devo guy? I can live with that.

[Guest]

Has anyone ever done a BEA members as novelists before?

[Polythene Pam]

This was going to be "BEA Members as kings, dictators, presidents, spiritual leaders, Philosophers and assorted political figureheads" I have now decided to include pretty much anything. 🤣

Bork as Aristotle

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"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."

Albumaster as Octavian (Augustus)

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"I found Rome of clay; I leave it to you of marble"

Necharsain as Kim Il-sung

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"Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace."

Joannajewsom as Sun Tzu

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"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."

Mother Nature's Son as Nelson Mandela

"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."

Polythene Pam as Niccolò Machiavelli

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"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

19Loveless91 as Mohandas Gandhi

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"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."

Hayden as Pope John Paul II

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"I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin."

Naples as Rupert Murdoch

"I think everyone's against abortion."

Jhereko as Buddha

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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Itsit as Anne Frank

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"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."

anothergreenworld2 as Charles Darwin

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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."

an_outlaw as Mao Zedong

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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Applerill as Moses

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"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

Borve Baunehoj as Alauddin Khilji

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cartoken as Angela Merkel

"It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change."

CellarDoor as Friedrich Hayek



"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."

DLGGLD as Philip II

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"O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living."

Eggman/Walrus/Taxman as Charles I

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"Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused."

GARY as Ron Paul

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"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."

Gussetivi as Joan Of Arc

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"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth."

hairymarx1 as Benito Mussolini

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"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts."

harkan as Rosa Parks

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"All I was doing was trying to get home from work."

HigherThanTheSun as Malcolm X

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery"

Jackwc as Albert Hofmann

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"After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn."

thejoj96 as Pol Pot

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"I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country."

joyofdivision as Noam Chomsky

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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

junodog4 as Joseph II

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“I am a royalist by trade”

kidamnesiac as Sigmund Freud

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"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

lancshirecab as Marie Curie

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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

lethanezzle as George Kastrioti

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mancsoulsister as Florence Nightingale

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"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."

Mr. Shankly as Al Gore

"George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising."

Norman Bates as John Maynard Keynes

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"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

Paladisiac as Karl Marx

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"Democracy is the road to socialism."

The Poe as Adam Smith

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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."

purple as Friedrich Nietzsche



"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

revolver94 as Thomas Edison

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"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

Romanelli as Epicurus

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ShaneSpear as Confucius

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SquishypuffDave as Rene Descartes

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"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. "

Xavygravy as Francis Galton

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"One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection"

Yourselfisntsteam as Ayn Rand

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"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."

Zoso as Zhu Yuanzhang

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40footwolf as Napoleon Bonaparte

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."

[Facetious]

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