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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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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.
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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.
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I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.
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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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Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.
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That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.
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