In my world, history comes down to language and art. - Theodore Bikel

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On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

Theodore Bikel

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

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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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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

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