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I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.
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Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.
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The whole community must be saved [in Tibet].
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I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say I hate you, it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.
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I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
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Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.
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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
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In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.
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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.
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Whenever an angel says Be not afraid! you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
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If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
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