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Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.
Shimon Peres
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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
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President Of Israel
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Szymon Perski
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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
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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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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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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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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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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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It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
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Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
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In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
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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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Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.
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Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.
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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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I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
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We have to be reasonable people.
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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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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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Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.
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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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[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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