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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world."

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Elizabeth Moon Science Fiction Author
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"But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world."

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Elizabeth Moon Science Fiction Author
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"No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic."

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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
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"I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity."

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"I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now"

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Emma Stone Actress
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"The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself."

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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
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"How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?"

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."

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