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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."
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"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"
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"I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
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"Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?"
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"The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime."
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"I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash."
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"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."
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"Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it."
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"I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask."
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"If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot."
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"Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries."
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"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face."
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"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant."
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"But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire."
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"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."
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"If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week."
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"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
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"I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace."
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"I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court."
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"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them."
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"It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight."
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"Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington."
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"We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda."
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"Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization."
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