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"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face."
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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud."

"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
May,

"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
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"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."
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"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless."

"As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us."

"Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine."

"An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?."

"When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs."

"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories."

"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered."
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