The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Marcel Achard, Playwright (1899) |
Harold Acton, Historian (1904) |
Todd Akin, Politician (1947) |
Frederick Lewis Allen, Editor (1890) |
P. T. Barnum, Entertainer (1810) |
Hollie Cavanagh, Musician (1993) |
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Celebrity (1948) |
Edie Falco, Actress (1963) |
Shane Filan, Musician (1979) |
Hazrat Inayat Khan, Clergyman (1882) |
Wilhelm Backhaus, Musician (1969) |
Bruce Barton, Author (1967) |
Charles Fillmore, Educator (1948) |
James Norman Hall, Author (1951) |
Kenneth Lay, Businessman (2006) |