Quote of the day
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).
Randolph Bourne

Born: May 30, 1886
Died: December 22, 1918 (aged 32)
Bio: Randolph Silliman Bourne was a progressive writer and "leftist intellectual" born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University.
Known for:
- War and the intellectuals (1917)
- Youth and life (1913)
- The radical will
- Untimely papers
- The tradition of war (1914)
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