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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.

Yehudi Menuhin

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Yehudi Menuhin
Age: 82 †
Born: 1916
Born: April 22
Died: 1999
Died: March 12
Autobiographer
Conductor
Jazz Musician
Politician
Violinist
New York City
New York
Yehudi Menuhin
Baron Menuhin
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