Shimon Peres Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!”
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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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“For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.”
-- Shimon PeresSource : "Talking Prayer With Shimon Peres at the Israeli Presidential Conference" by Eitan Press, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.
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“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”
-- Shimon PeresSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.”
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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.”
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“You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar”
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“And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.”
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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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“To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.”
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“The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.”
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“A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.”
-- Shimon PeresSource : Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.
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“We should use our imagination more than our memory.”
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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.”
-- Shimon PeresSource : "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.
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“The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.”
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“I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.”
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“You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.”
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“There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.”
-- Shimon PeresSource : "Making History". Interview with Benny Morris, www.tabletmag.com. July 26, 2010.
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“The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.”
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“Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.”
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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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“The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.”
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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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“The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.”
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“In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.”
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“Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.”
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“I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.”
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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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“The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.”
-- Shimon Peres
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