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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.

Elie Wiesel

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
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
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
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
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
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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Imagination Invention Memories Myself People Time
The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Kill Philosophy Silence Word Wrong
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
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
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
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
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
Think higher, feel deeper.
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Deep Feeling High One Liner Thinking
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering

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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