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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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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
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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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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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every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
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What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?
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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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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
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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.
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Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
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