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“Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.”

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Elie Wiesel

A renowned Jewish author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Elie Wiesel is known for his profound literary achievements and for recording and spreading the history of the Holocaust as a survivor. His works deeply reveal the terror of the Nazi Holocaust and the universal nature of human suffering. more

“I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.”

World Life Persons Doe Book Evil Doubt Dangerous Pure Indifference No Doubt Fanaticism

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.”

Should Firsts Circumstances Taste Rose Intention Critical Suits Irrelevant Composing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.”

Ifs Done Stars Causes Destiny Sun Forever Path Moon Fingers Deeds Dust Shakes Venture Specks

Book:The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe

“Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.”