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God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms.
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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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Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.
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If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.
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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.
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You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.
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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
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I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
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Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
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Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
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I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.
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Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.
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Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.
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'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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