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Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

Charles Van Doren

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Charles Van Doren
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: February 12
Died: 2019
Died: April 9
Biographer
Intellectual
Non-Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Manhattan borough
New York City
Charles Lincoln Van Doren
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Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.
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I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.
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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
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I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.
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