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SpearthrowerOwl

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23. Sherlock Holmes

Mon Apr 29, 2013, 05:46 PM

Apr 2013

Pretty easy choice for me. This character is incredible for encouraging proper thought - it's not just common crime that one can apply the habitually-learned Sherlock-Holmes-patterns-of-proper-thought, but society and problems the universe over including the problems with our current society are all unravelable with his careful methods. One simply has to be on constant vigilance to increase the scope of their applicability.

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