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He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
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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I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.
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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
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Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.
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It's a morality that keeps humans human.
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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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Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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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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I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
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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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The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.
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If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
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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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I've worked with 10 presidents. It's a record. I worked with Republicans and Democrats. All of them when it came to Israel were, movingly, friendly. From Truman, who was the first to recognize Israel 11 minutes after the U.N. resolution, to Obama. When it comes to the major issues of security and strategy, we are together, completely.
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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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