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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.

Elie Wiesel

Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Cherish Definition Gratitude Happiness Humanity Myself
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
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
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Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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Group Person Suffering Yourself
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
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
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
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Failure Injustice Power Protest Time
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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Difference Integrity Myself Person
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
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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Angry Bite Cry Day Lips Wait
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Hands Life Open
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Exercise Himself Man Power Ultimate
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill

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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