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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

Elie Wiesel

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
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
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
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
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
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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Face Human Important Philosophy Question
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Believe God Illusion Man Spark
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
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
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive

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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