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"A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community."
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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
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"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."
Fear

"It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region."
Confidence

"According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background."
Culture

"A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization."
Environment

"I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East."
Stability

"A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world."
People

"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously."
Debate

"What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic."
Democracy

"Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable."
Islam

"I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current."
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