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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Education Learning Substitute Word
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
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Education Hate Repeat Violence
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
For us it’s not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don’t accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
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Acceptance Confirm Easy Justice Myself Stand
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
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Baby Better Burn God Yourself
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
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Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

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