In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.


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ELIE WURTMAN
There is an abundance of creative talent in Jerusalem that has yet to be explored. By focusing on me...
ELIE WURTMAN
I've never had negative feedback.
ELIE WADE
We gave them the information, and they wrote the script. They did everything.
ELIE WADE
We make mortgage loans, so one of the things we put on the message is a list of things you need to b...
ELIE WADE
I knew it was wrong. I did not have the intent to violate the law, but I knew it was wrong.
ELIE NAKOUZI
I did it because I felt I was doing some good for the patients.
ELIE NAKOUZI
It becomes almost a social catalyst. Giving [consumers] something that is an inside joke is an essen...
ELIE DEKEL
Dozens and dozens of television properties are enjoying licensing, from reality, to drama to comedy ...
ELIE DEKEL
She has managed to take the best from the situation and make London very appealing for international...
ELIE DARWICH
It appears clear that she was right.
ELIE DARWICH
If you get burned, you will take time before you try again.
ELIE COHEN
This country has a very long memory. The question of reforming the labor code is now on ice for year...
ELIE COHEN
Europe is weakening at a time when its critical mass is most needed. The timing is a catastrophe.
ELIE COHEN
People don't feel Europe and they don't feel Brussels. The idea is to bring some life into a soulles...
ELIE BARNAVI
I would be the first to admit that the idea of writing the history of Europe is loaded.
ELIE BARNAVI
We literally saw the fire jump from one floor to another, up towards the top. it was like a scene in...
ELIE BARNAVI
We delivered a solid financial performance in fiscal 2006, growing total revenues 32 percent, which ...
ELIE ANTOUN
As we near the close of our fiscal fourth quarter, we are disappointed that our preliminary financia...
ELIE ANTOUN
If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, le...
ELIE WIESEL
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the...
ELIE WIESEL
It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.
ELIE WIESEL
Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming.

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ELIE WIESEL
I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
ELIE WIESEL
There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gr...
ELIE WIESEL
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subse...
ELIE WIESEL
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He...
ELIE WIESEL
From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...
ELIE WIESEL
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, conso...
ELIE DUCOMMUN
I worked in a boutique after work, my second job, selling women's clothes. And that was a way of...
ELIE TAHARI
I don't walk around feeling like I'm successful. I feel like I did well.
ELIE TAHARI
I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it...
ELIE SAAB
If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.
ELIE SAAB
I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.
ELIE SAAB