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David Ben Gurion

"The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America."

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"The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."

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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."

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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

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"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

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"I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."

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"There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million."
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"Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport."
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"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs."
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"Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message."
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"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism."
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