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For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
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If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.
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When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
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I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
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People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.
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He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair. And if he punishes us mercilessly, it is a sign that He loves us that much more.
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We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.
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[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty, and this is fanaticism.
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I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.
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Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
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I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
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What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.
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He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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