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" Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders. "
Shimon Peres
Science
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" For 60 years, I was the most controversial figure in the country, and suddenly, I'm the most popular man in the land. Truth be told, I don't know when I was happier: then or now. "
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Now
Truth
" Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. "
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" As president, I was more successful; I had more opportunity than as prime minister. Why? I didn't have the power to give orders, to command, but I had the opportunity to call people to volunteer. In my period of presidency, I never heard the word 'no.' "
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" When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense. "
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Special
" My goal in life was to serve my people, and the most important service for the Jewish people is building the land, and the basics of building the people and the country is working the land. "
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" For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic. "
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" You can kill a body, but you cannot kill the great and noble idea of peace. "
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" I never was after money. It never attracted me. "
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After
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" What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? "
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" You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress. "
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Life
Women
Change
" We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. "
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Matter
Up
Inflation
" Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances. "
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Respect
War
Time
" The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories. "
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Victories
Thanks
Victory
" What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns. "
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Than
Greater
Guns
" There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place. "
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First Time
Forest
Place
" I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations. "
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Moral
Service
Public Service
" Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July. "
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Place
True Friend
True
" I felt that if I could make the world better for the young, that would be the greatest thing we can do. "
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Greatest
World
Make
" They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever. "
Shimon Peres
Parents
Negative
Man
" The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. "
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Middle
More
Politics
" When I was a child, Israel was a legend more than a reality. She emerged from a dream, and today she has surpassed that dream. "
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Child
Today
Reality
" That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two. "
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Peace
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" You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. "
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Civilization
Began
Know
" Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital. "
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Morning
Girl
Love
" I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook. "
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People
Think
Peace
" He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. "
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Teacher
House
Man
" I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process. "
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Process
Believe
Judgment
" A politician and a government should be judged by one way only: on the record of what you do or did, not on what you say. "
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You
Way
Say
" From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams. "
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Youth
Destination
Journey
" When it comes to the Sunnis and Shiites, it is not for the United States or for us or for anyone else to settle who was the heir of Muhammad. This is a Muslim and Arab problem, and they have to deal with it. "
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Problem
Deal
Settle