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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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Conduit
Epistemology

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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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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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Audiences are audiences.
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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art.
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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
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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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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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