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"He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned."
Defence


"I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway."
Time


"I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make."
Finance


"They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever."
Thought


"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
Democracy


"He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement."
Man


"When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist."
First


"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."
History


"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
Peace


"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."
Mother
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