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" Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. "
Where
Presumption
Mark
" Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. "
Problem
Worry
Think
" A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. "
Battle
Who
Nation
" As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. "
Doing
Done
Nobody
" Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. "
Everybody
Himself
Authority
" Being seventy is not a sin. "
Being
Age
Seventy
" Don't be humble... you're not that great. "
Be Humble
You
Great
" Even paranoids have real enemies. "
Even
Real
Enemies
" Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. "
Imposition
Reign
Freedom
" Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. "
Glorious
Applause
Artist
" I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. "
Say
I Can
The Right Thing
" I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. "
Why
Cold
You
" I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. "
Clock
Govern
Time
" I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. "
Country
Alone
Whatever
" It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. "
True
Victories
Want
" It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. "
Head
What If
Heart
" Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! "
Tell
You
Me
" Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. "
Look
Secret
Waiting
" Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. "
Beautiful
Me
True
" Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. "
Age
Flying
Old Age
" One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. "
Try
Past
Must
" Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. "
Never
Pessimism
Luxury
" The dog that trots about finds a bone. "
Motivational
Finds
Dog
" The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. "
Well
Place
Egypt
" The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. "
History
Art
People
" There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row. "
Blame
Average
Doubt
" There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse. "
Difference
Decisions
Will
" The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. "
World
Realistic
Government
" Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. "
Sad
Laugh
Know
" To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. "
Question
You
Compromise
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