Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. - Elie Wiesel

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Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.

Elie Wiesel

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Culture, Hope, Humans, Memories, Memory

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In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

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The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the. . . most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.

Believe, Discovered, Einsatz, Gun, Guns, War

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Bystanders, Humiliation, Remembrance, Silence, Silent, Suffering

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

Alone, Gratitude, Know, Mean, Night

No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?

Beautiful, Contradiction, Right, Skinny, Wrong

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Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

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Barack Obama

I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that's a principle that we've gotta hold to as well. But what I don't wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works.

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Mary-Kate Olsen

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?

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Melissa de la Cruz

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Auguste Comte

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

Aid, Community, Diminution, Enjoyment, Treasure, Use