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Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher (1903) |
Daniel Akaka, Politician (1924) |
Maria Bartiromo, Journalist (1967) |
Elizabeth Daily, Actress (1961) |
Jimmie Davis, Politician (1899) |
Charles Evers, Activist (1922) |
Tony Gilroy, Writer (1956) |
Eduard Hanslick, Writer (1825) |
Serge Haroche, Physicist (1944) |
Mickey Hart, Musician (1943) |
William Dampier, Explorer (1908) |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician (1948) |
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman (1971) |
Erich Leinsdorf, Celebrity (1993) |