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“Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.”
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“Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.”
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“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.”
Source : Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal, September 8, 1979.
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“By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.”
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“People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.”
Source : "Miranda July and Jonah Peretti on Reading Other People’s E-Mail". Interview with Jesse Ashlock, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. July 11, 2013.
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“I just want to be treated like an average guy.”
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“For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him”
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“Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.”
Source : Usenet article <[email protected]>, 2005.
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“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.”
Source : "His Name is Today". Poem by Gabriela Mistral, mid 1900s.
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“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”