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"Sometimes I am asked if I know the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude HAS a response. What I do know is that there is response in responsibility. When we speak of this era of evil and darkness, so close and yet so distant, responsibility is the key word,The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future."
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"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."

"People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses."

"Take responsibility for your life and count solely on yourself."

"You should only expect something from your efforts."

"God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven."

"So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation."

"I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met."

"Joblessness gives you life ownership."

"Christians don't have the moral right to be indifferent."
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"I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it."

"We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth."

"I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake."

"Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky."

"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

"The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria..."
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