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Theodore Bikel Quotes: No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
         

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.


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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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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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