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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
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
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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Appearance Beautiful Contradiction Human Illegal Right Wrong
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
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Death Forget Kill
In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
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
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
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Endurance Human Humiliation Myself Silence
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
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
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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Group Person Suffering Yourself
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
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Different Greatness Silence Sin
Every moment is a new beginning.
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Beginning Moments Perspective Time
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word

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