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" We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts. "
Shimon Peres
Living
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" One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do. "
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" Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria. "
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" My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small. "
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" If you have children, you cannot feed them forever with flags for breakfast and cartridges for lunch. You need something more substantial. Unless you educate your children and spend less money on conflicts, unless you develop your science, technology and industry, you don't have a future. "
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" One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are. "
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" Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region. "
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" I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read. "
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" He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor. "
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" I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations. "
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" Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. "
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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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" I dreamed of a future as a muscular, tanned, kibbutznik, who plowed the fertile fields of the Jezreel Valley in the day, sang religiously in the dining hall in the evening, and fiercely guarded the farmland at night, riding a noble horse. "
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" 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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" There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary. "
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" I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. "
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" I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God. "
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" 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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" The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people. "
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" I have the highest respect for Obama. I have worked with 10 American presidents, both Republicans and Democrats. As far as Israeli security is concerned, he has done the most that an American president can do. "
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" When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist. "
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" 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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" 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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