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"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."
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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

"The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances."
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"In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law."

"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."

"The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided."

"When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines."

"Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam."

"When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism."

"When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country."
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