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Charles Van Doren

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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.


— Charles Van Doren


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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.


— Charles Van Doren


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


— Charles Van Doren


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I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.


— Charles Van Doren


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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.


— Charles Van Doren


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I never wanted to see another quiz show.


— Charles Van Doren


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I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.


— Charles Van Doren


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My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.


— Charles Van Doren


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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.


— Charles Van Doren


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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.


— Charles Van Doren


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The film made $24 million by April 1995 and was nominated for Academy Awards in the categories of Best Picture Best Director Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Adapted Screenplay. He graduated from The High School of Music & Art and then earned a B. " But on November 2 1959 he admitted to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight a United States Congress subcommittee chaired by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris that he had been given questions and answers in advance of the show.

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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