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Off the top of my head:

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Galileo's A Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and The Capital
The bible, the Koran, and similar holy books.
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Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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Anatoliy Golitsyn's "New Lies for Old" and "The Perestroika Deception."

And oh yeah, The Bible.
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Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Uncle Tom's Cabin by someone I forget, lots of the stuff by enlightenment philospohers...
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Koran, bible

guess those were obvious choices. they were already mentioned.

Don't forget nearly all scientific work by Lenardo Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein etc.
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Hobbes - Leviathan
Rousseau - Le contrat social
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The US declaration of Independence.
Various confucian works.

that is, of course, added to the texts already mentioned.
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the Talmud

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George Orwell's 1984.
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I'm gonna go with Augustine's Confessions and City of God. Also with Luther's 95 theses, as well as Aquinas' Summa Theologica.

And let's not forget the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution!

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The Magna Carta
Plato - Symposium and The Republic
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
More - Utopia
John Nash's Undergrad Paper/Thesis (whatever it was called )
Anything by Shakespeare (if only because we have to study them )
The Treaty of Versailles

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Luther's 95 theses

completely forgot about Luther's work.

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Also sprach Zarathustra.
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Vel's SMAC strategy guide.

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John Locke's Two Treatises on Government.
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Ulysses - James Joyce.
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Thanks Alex!

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hmmm, Vel, Alex didn't say it changed it for the better....

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Isn't the Declaration of Independence a copy of the Magna Carta?
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Geez, I can't believe all you Civers missed the obvious one:

Sun Tzu's Art of War


Shame on you all!

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Too true, Alva! But I hope the guide comes down on the side of the forces of good....

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The Prince, Machiavelli
Leviathan, Hobbes
Utopia, More
The Republic, Plato

those are some political ones off the top of my head, god knows there are hundreds more influential books.
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Is the Darma the buddhist one? That's pretty influential.
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Too true, Alva! But I hope the guide comes down on the side of the forces of good....

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The forces of good pour from those wise pages, my friends.

 
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