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You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

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Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
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Judaic Scholar
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All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.
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Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
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One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.
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[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.
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