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06 Aug 2021, 9:15 am

For better, or for worse


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06 Aug 2021, 9:25 am

Absolutely, but the people who have such a strong impact world wide that they can be said to have changed the whole world are rare. And I think it's those who change it for worse whose names will be likelier to be remembered.



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06 Aug 2021, 9:35 am

Some would say that Jesus of Nazareth changed the world; but has it changed for the better?  That is debatable.



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06 Aug 2021, 9:10 pm

Adolf Hitler changed the world by starting a whole world war


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06 Aug 2021, 9:14 pm

Johannes Gutenberg for the win.


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06 Aug 2021, 9:38 pm

I would guess probably not entirely independently. By being the original source of something then picked up in some fashion by others, certainly. For example, could Adolf Hitler have done what he did without any supporters or anybody assisting him? Certainly at least not to such a scale. So I would say that one person alone absolutely can be the initial cause of world change, but probably could not significantly change the entire world completely alone. But I stand by my guideline of not entirely ruling anything out as one hundred percent truly impossible.


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06 Aug 2021, 10:15 pm

Here's a quote by Barack Obama

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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.


It's at about 1;47 :arrow:


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06 Aug 2021, 10:19 pm

1 man has already changed the world and his name is:


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