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I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
Shimon Peres
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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
Poet
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President Of Israel
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Vishneva
Szymon Perski
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I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.
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Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.
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Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.
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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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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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Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.
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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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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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Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
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I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
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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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I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.
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[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.
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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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Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
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Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.
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The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
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