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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Elie Wiesel

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
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
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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Face Right See Suffering
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
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Help Oppression Side Victim
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
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
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
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
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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Death Forget Kill Time
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
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
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
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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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Forever Oneself Place Question

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

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