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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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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
Poet
Politician
President Of Israel
Writer
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Szymon Perski
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Taste
Brother
Read
Mother
Librarian
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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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Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
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I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.
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Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.
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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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Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
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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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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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Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.
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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.
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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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Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.
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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 will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.
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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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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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Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.
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