Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.

Influenced by Buddhist teachings, the document focuses more on social morality than institutions of government per se and remains a notable early attempt at a government constitution.

Influenced by the doctrine of " natural right ", the rights of man are held to be universal: valid at all times and in every place, pertaining to human nature itself.

Influenced by the ruin of ancient Rome and perhaps by his Byzantine mother, Otto III dreamed of restoration of the glory and power of the ancient Roman Empire, with himself at the head of a theocratic state.

Influenced by the events of the Fronde, Louis XIV rebuilt the area around the Bastille, erecting a new archway at the Porte Saint-Antoine in 1660, and then ten years later pulling down the city walls and their supporting fortifications to replace them with an avenue of trees, later called Louis XIV's boulevard, which passed around the Bastille.

Influenced by Verne's books and ideas, Oberth constructed his first model rocket as a school student at the age of 14.

Influenced by Hannibal's success at the Battle of Cannae, Schlieffen planned for a single great battle of encirclement, thereby annihilating his enemy.

Influenced by both his father and brother, at the age of 16 Thomas chose to enroll at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.

Gotti was imprisoned in May 1986 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York while awaiting trial on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) charges.

Influenced by the work of El Greco, they were exhibited at the Godfrey Phillips Galleries in St James's, Central London in November 1930, an exhibit that proved to be Spare's last in London's West End.

Influenced by his tutor Ferdinand von Hochstetter ( who later became the first superintendent of the Imperial Natural History Museum ), Rudolf became very interested in natural sciences, starting a mineral collection at a very early age.

Congress opted to put a federal criminal limit on interest rates by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) definitions of " unlawful debt ", which make it a federal felony to lend money at an interest rate more than twice the local state usury rate and then try to collect that " unlawful debt ".

Influenced by Lincoln Steffens, his career began when he was nineteen years old and was hired at the Pittsburgh Leader.

Influenced heavily by George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, Germany's Kraftwerk and the house music coming out of Chicago at the time, they created a new genre of percussive, entirely synthetic electronic dance music.

Influenced as a child by blues, soul and jazz music on American Forces Radio, Robert Palmer joined his first band, The Mandrakes, at the age of 15 while still at Scarborough Boys ' High School.

Influenced by Thomas Jefferson's plan at the University of Virginia, the Nichols-designed campus featured a wide, high domed Rotunda that served as the library and nucleus of the campus.

After completing his work on the HSCA, Blakey went on to become the William J. and Dorothy K. O ' Neill Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, and is considered the foremost expert on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

Influenced by his father, Romberg learned to play the violin at six, and piano at eight years of age.

Influenced by Ruthless Records founder and gangsta rapper Eazy-E and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Uzzi joined the group in early 1995, after he had performed with them at a series of local hip hop concerts in Bucharest.

Influenced by these figures, and other uncompromising nationalists who regularly stayed at Glendalough, he finally came to believe that his moderate " dominion " proposal would not serve.

Influenced by such literary works as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies, it describes the adventures of a young Englishman in search of and on a legendary, idyllic beach untouched by tourism.

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “ Planet People ”, and gathering at prehistoric sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.

Influenced by the classical rock and roll and rockabilly acts, a large number of young people started performing the so-called " električna muzika " (" electric music "), naming themselves " električari " (" electricians ").

Influenced by the thought of the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa and his brother, the chief Tecumseh, McQueen was one of several young Creek prophets who envisioned the expulsion of the European Americans from Indian lands.

Influenced by Afonso, the young king nullified all of Peter's edicts.

Influenced from an early age by the Swiss modernist, Le Corbusier, Tange gained international recognition in 1949 when he won the competition for the design of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

Influenced by John Ruskin, he envisioned a future that took the form of primitive communism, which flatly rejected the industrialism of the Victorian age.

Influenced by his grandfather, an avid book collector, Pérez read voraciously from an early age, including French and Spanish classics by Jules Verne and Alexandre Dumas.

Influenced early on by Leon Roppolo, who Fazola continued to idolize throughout his life, Fazola was playing professionally by age 15.

Influenced at an early age by George Jones and Chet Atkins, Wariner started performing in his father's band, and later moved on to playing in local clubs.

Influenced by his mother ’ s tapes of Pavarotti and the Three Tenors, Ansell joined the West Sussex Boys ' Choir conducted by Arthur Robson, at the age of eight.

Influenced by the German tradition, Boas argued that the world was full of distinct cultures, rather than societies whose evolution could be measured by how much or how little " civilization " they had.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

Influenced by Keynes, economics texts in the immediate post-war period put a significant emphasis on balance in trade.

Influenced by the sounds and style of no wave and noise rock bands, Love convinced Sonic Youth bassist Kim Gordon to produce Hole's first studio album.

Influenced perhaps by his experience as a state governor, Hughes authored a series of decisions that upheld state laws that affected — and, it might be argued, infringed on — congressional authority over interstate commerce.

Influenced like Pound by German social and legal thinkers, Ely in 1903 had ascribed " the coercion of economic forces " in American society " to the unequal strength of those who make a contract.

Influenced by the Italian feature film Cabiria ( 1914 ), Griffith was convinced that feature films were commercially viable.

Influenced by the views of Brentano's pupil Alexius Meinong, and by Edmund Husserl, Germanophone and Francophone philosophy took a different direction regarding the question of existence.

Influenced partly by the fact that Gregory was the son of his father's enemy, he ordered Gregory imprisoned for twelve ( some sources indicate fourteen ) years in a pit on the Ararat Plain under the present day church of Khor Virap located near the historical city Artashat in Armenia.

Influenced by his dreams, he wrote his first novel, A Goddess Arrives, over the next few years.

Influenced by Jones's psychoanalytic approach, several productions have portrayed the " closet scene ", where Hamlet confronts his mother in her private quarters, in a sexual light.

Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights, these rights were deemed universal and valid in all times and places, pertaining to human nature itself.

Influenced by the crossover success of Ray Charles, Brown backed away from his musical roots and incorporated productions of pop standards, finding success with his first Top 20 single, " Prisoner of Love ".

Influenced by the words of the prophet Ahijah (), he began to form conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the ten tribes ; but these were discovered, and he fled to Egypt, where he remained under the protection of pharaoh Shishak until the death of Solomon.

* René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators ( Amsterdam, 2007 )

Influenced by the constructivist theories of Piaget, Vygotsky and Bruner, Seymour Papert developed his constructionist theory ( Sefton-Green 2004 ).

Influenced by Lenin, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party stated that the development of the socialist workers ’ culture should not be ‘ hamstrung from above ’, and opposed the Proletkult ( 1917 – 25 ) organisational control of the national culture.

Influenced by Henry Salt's writing, he joined the Vegetarian Society, was elected to its executive committee, and started a local Bayswater chapter.

Influenced by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, several prominent writers and artists were involved in these organizations, including William Butler Yeats, Maud Gonne, Arthur Edward Waite, and Aleister Crowley.