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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.
Shimon Peres
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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
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The history of Israel is divided into two parts. One, under attack that we have had to defend ourselves. When you defend yourself your thinking is totally different from when you want to make peace. So under attack you behave like if you want a hawk, when peace comes you become a dove.
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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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For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
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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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What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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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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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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In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.
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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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It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
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It's a morality that keeps humans human.
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Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
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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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We had a lot of support - don't give me the world, just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.
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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 do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.
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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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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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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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