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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question
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
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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Memories Myself Obsession People Remember Resilience
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
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Collection Faith Inferior Judgement Religion
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
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
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
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
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
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman

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