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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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Epistemology
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Knowledge

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I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
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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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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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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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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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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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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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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.
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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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