Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
ELIE WIESELAn indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
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Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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