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Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Approximate author period: c. 1927 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Karl Barth
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Approximate author period: c. 1927 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Karl Barth: life dates 1886 to 1968. Wikidata Q107473, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107473 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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