"Every nation has its prestigious military academies -……" — Elie Wiesel
"Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?"
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326 Quotes by Elie Wiesel
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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.
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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
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Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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Holy War is a contradiction of terms...
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain…
— Baruch Spinoza
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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But…
— Ross Garnaut
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
— John Charles Polanyi
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So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in…
— Arun Manilal Gandhi
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that…
— Oscar Wilde
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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end,…
— Edvard Munch
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The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public…
— Walter J. Phillips
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A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the…
— Itay Talgam
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Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the…
— Henry Adams
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