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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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You should be conscious of your impact in real life.
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Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
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I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself.
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An enemy who sees the error of his ways ceases to be an enemy.
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If he believes time has run its course,
A man is a sad thing too.
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It is not at all an idle matter trying to define what a human being is.
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Our language lacks words to express this offence, the demolition of a man.
Of a year spent in Auschwitz
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Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
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What to do now? How to detach yourself?
With every work that's born you die a little.
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A chemist cannot find, already in his mind, the laws and the phenomena which govern matter.
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If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?
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Evolution has always proved itself to be enormously more intelligent than the best evolutionists.
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My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.
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The Fascist censors were intelligent, in their way. Admitting something and excluding something else.
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There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.
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Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.
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Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.
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The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat.
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It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
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The dark echoed with outlandish orders in that curt, barbaric barking of Germans in command which seems to give vent to a millennial anger.
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Consider whether this is a man,
Who labours in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust of bread
Who dies at a yes or a no.
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I was fond of chemistry, so I refused the humanistic teaching of literature, but as matters go it entered me through the skin without my knowing.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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All honor to the pickax and its modern equivalents; they are still the most important intermediaries in the millennial dialogue between the elements and man.
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In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: "to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away."
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A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.
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The lab is a place for the young, and returning there you feel young again: with the same longing for adventure, discovery, and the unexpected that you have at seventeen.
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[The therapy] was found pretty soon, drawing on good inorganic chemistry, that distant Cartesian island, a lost paradise, for us organic chemists, bunglers, "students of gunk".
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As happens with all well-structured exhibits, indeed as happens anytime one partakes of spiritual food, one leaves the exhibit nourished and at the same time hungrier than before.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
Abdus Salam
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Born:
July 31, 1919
Died:
April 11, 1987
(aged 67)
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