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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Elie Wiesel

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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Desire Ideas Memories People Shadow Surround Thinking Truth
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Hate Health Persistence Religious
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
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Himself Place Refugee Time
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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Change Life Protection World
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
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
I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial

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