Nelson Mandela, for obvious reasons.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 May 2019 source ↗
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Stevie Wonder: he’s brought so much joy to the world for so many years.
Peter Tatchell is a person very worthy of admiration, but few ever seem to acknowledge him as such.
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View profile →My parents. We didn’t realise how absolutely desperate they were when we left Germany, because my father couldn’t earn anything. A letter turned up fairly recently in which he said, “We’ve been through a terrible time because Julia [my mother] never stopped talking about suicide and not just for herself, but to take the children with her.”
When I received my scholarship to art school in 1945.
Not having longer legs.
Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
Nothing, really, because it was all interesting.
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