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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."
"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
"I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out."
"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble."
"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."
"I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters."
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"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."
"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."
"Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital."
"We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is."
"Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man."
"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."
"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."
"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."
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