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“Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.”
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“The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.”
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“Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
Source : Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken
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“Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.”
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“The best way to deal with jealousy is to just recognize it first if it comes up, breath with it and let it go, because you can never compare yourself to somebody else, because you are so different any unique,everybody is so different and unique, so focus on what your positive qualities are, and try and expand and grow on that so then u can be a better version of yourself.”
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“Turquoise is my birthstone; Im a Sagittarius.”
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“I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.”
Source : "Prophet Of Privacy". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 1, 1994.
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“Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.”