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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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Szymon Perski
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The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.
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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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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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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 internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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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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Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.
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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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Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
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[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.
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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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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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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
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It's a morality that keeps humans human.
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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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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.
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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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For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
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