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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

I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
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
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
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
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Action Death Live Memories Responsibility
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
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
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Feeling Myself Understand Writing
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
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
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman

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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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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