"I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray."

-- Elie Wiesel

#Mean Quotes #Holocaust Quotes #Trials Quotes

“The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.”
“Who lives longer? The man who takes ***** for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.”
“This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.”
“Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.”
“But talentâ€”if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless.”
“We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.”
“Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.”
“I can see November from my house.”

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