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Schindler's List
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"Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.

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Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

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heroismlifehumanity

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

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This list... is an absolute good. The list is life.

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I could have gotten one more person... and I didn't! And I... I didn't!

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The war brings out the worst in people. Never the good, always the bad.

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It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says, 'Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.'

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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

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For a few hours of his life, Oskar Schindler was a good man.

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This is the story of two men, one who is evil and the other who is good.

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The principle was sound: to lose one’s job, or one’s life, for the sake of principle seemed a foolish thing.

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