"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

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Source : Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

Elie Wiesel

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“[Simon Segars ] came by a few times.I told him, "If you understand the future of the internet of things that much, then you should add more engineers and go on the offensive." Simon had explained to analysts and others that he intended to do that sort of forward-looking investment, but he said it's tough for a listed company considering its share price falls if profits drop.”
“The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected ...”
“I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'”

Source : "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.
“Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness:”

Source : "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.
“What I'm doing is going to do some good and we're going to change the world.”
“My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.”
“Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.”
“The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.”

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