When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. (Yo-Yo Ma)

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

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