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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.
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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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 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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