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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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