I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
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- Author's profession: Historian
- Nationality: english
- Born: May 15, 1934
- Died: August 2, 2012
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Here were the luxury and priviledge of the well-fed man scoffing at all hopes and progress for the rest. [He] owed nothing to a world that nurtured him kindly, liberally educated him for free, sent him to no wars, brought him to manhood without scary rituals or famine or fear of vengeful gods, embraced him with a handsome pension in his twenties and placed no limits on his freedom of expression. This was an easy nihilism that never doubted that all we had made was rotten, never thought to...
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