I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

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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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"To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

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"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

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"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

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"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."

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