The last part, the part you’re now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
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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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Birth: | 12th February, 1926 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Editor, Writer |
Charles Lincoln Van Doren is an American intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he confessed before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty One.
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