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:*the Stranger on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35) -- ostensibly a random, uniformed member of the public -- knew more
 
:*the Stranger on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35) -- ostensibly a random, uniformed member of the public -- knew more
 
:*the [[Epistle to the Hebrews (Translated)|Epistle to the Hebrews]] has unknown authorship, despite having the highest intellectual level; it was possibly written by [[Jesus]]
 
:*the [[Epistle to the Hebrews (Translated)|Epistle to the Hebrews]] has unknown authorship, despite having the highest intellectual level; it was possibly written by [[Jesus]]
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*[[Shakespeare]] was an unknown commoner in aristocratic [[England]], and yet Shakespeare became the greatest playwright of all time; some refuse even now to accept that an ordinary, relatively uneducated person could have surpassed the elite by so much.
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*[[Shakespeare]] was an unknown commoner in aristocratic [[England]], unschooled in [[Latin]] or [[Greek]], and yet Shakespeare became the greatest playwright of all time; some refuse even now to accept that an ordinary, relatively uneducated person could have surpassed the elite by so much.
 
*[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] dropped out of [[Princeton University|Princeton]], was rejected by literary critics of his day, and was banished by his girlfriend's family for being too poor, but he is now credited with having written the greatest American novel, ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''.<ref>http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/</ref>
 
*[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] dropped out of [[Princeton University|Princeton]], was rejected by literary critics of his day, and was banished by his girlfriend's family for being too poor, but he is now credited with having written the greatest American novel, ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''.<ref>http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/</ref>
 
*[[Kurt Gödel]] single-handedly changed mathematics by proving its incompleteness, contrary to what all leading mathematicians thought, and yet Godel never received a tenured professorship or high award.
 
*[[Kurt Gödel]] single-handedly changed mathematics by proving its incompleteness, contrary to what all leading mathematicians thought, and yet Godel never received a tenured professorship or high award.
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