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"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."
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"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."

"I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it."

"The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation."

"Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease."

"It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!"

"Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person."

"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."

"Kill the body and the head will die."

"Bullies are packed animals, when one fuels the fire others follow."

"Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit."
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"Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly."

"I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times."

"We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this."

"An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?."

"Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine."

"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."

"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them."

"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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