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profile name: Henri Cartier-Bresson
profile occupation: Photographer, Filmmaker
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profile name: Lee Kuan Yew
profile occupation: Lawyer, Prime Minister
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profile name: John Donne
profile occupation: Poet
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profile name: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
profile occupation: Philosopher, Literary Critic, Poet
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profile name: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
profile occupation: Educator, Historian, Scholar, Literary Critic, Filmmaker, Academic Author, Editor
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profile name: Bertrand Russell
profile occupation: Philosopher, Mathematician, Anti-War Activist, Journalist
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