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Shimon Peres

"If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out."

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"If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out."

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A.E. Samaan

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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A.E. Samaan

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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A.E. Samaan

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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A.E. Samaan

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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A.E. Samaan

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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A.E. Samaan

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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A.E. Samaan

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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A.E. Samaan

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

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Shimon Peres
"What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?"

Choice

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Shimon Peres
"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."

Inflation

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Shimon Peres
"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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Shimon Peres
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."

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Shimon Peres
"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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Shimon Peres
"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

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Shimon Peres
"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."

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Shimon Peres
"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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Shimon Peres
"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."

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Shimon Peres
"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."

Time

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