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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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President Of Israel
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Szymon Perski
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Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
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The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
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Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.
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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
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Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.
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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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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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I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.
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Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.
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Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.
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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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I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.
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Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)
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The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
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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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The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
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Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.
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I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
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Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
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Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.
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