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Quote by Theodore Bikel
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

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

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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasnt doing. – Theodore Bikel

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Beauty
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Theodore Bikel
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasnt doing. – Theodore Bikel

Category:
Beauty
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Theodore Bikel
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. – Theodore Bikel

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power
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Art
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. – Kary Mullis

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Art

Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville

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Art

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of disinterest strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms havent. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Art

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One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you cant get an answer from someone until 5 oclock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesnt get too exciting after a while. – Mark Spitz

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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me. – Honore de Balzac, letter to Evelina Hanska, June 1836

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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. – Simon Newcomb

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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. – Marcel Proust

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