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Every moment is a new beginning.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
Be careful with words, they’re dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It’s up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
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Angel Care Dangerous Demon Myself Word
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
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Encouragement Silence Torment
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
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
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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Change Destiny Human Ourselves Power
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
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
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
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Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Choice Freedom Myself Suffering
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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Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time

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