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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.

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
Writer
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Szymon Perski
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Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.
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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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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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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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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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It's a morality that keeps humans human.
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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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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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I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.
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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
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Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.
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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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Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
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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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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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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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I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
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Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
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