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

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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Equality

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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.

Age

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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 wasn't doing.

Beauty

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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Fear