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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.
Shimon Peres
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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
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Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
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Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
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Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.
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The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
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I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.
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In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.
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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.
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In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
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Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.
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I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.
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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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