Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
ELIE WIESELEternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
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Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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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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Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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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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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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