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I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years.... I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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Born:
February 12, 1926
Died:
April 9, 2019
(aged 93)
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Charles Lincoln Van Doren was an American intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s.
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