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You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

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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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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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Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
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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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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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Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
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We have to be reasonable people.
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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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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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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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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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[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.
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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
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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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I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.
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Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?
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The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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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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