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Quotes by Israeli Authors

"His ignorance is encyclopedic."
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Abba Eban
"His ignorance is encyclopedic."
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"There is no more Palestine. Finished."
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Moshe Dayan
"There is no more Palestine. Finished."
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"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."
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Mordechai Vanunu
"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."
"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war."
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Golda Meir
"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war."
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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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David Ben Gurion
"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."
"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."
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Itzhak Perlman
"Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all."
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"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."
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Golda Meir
"You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."
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"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."
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Moshe Dayan
"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
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Golda Meir
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
"Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber."
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Moshe Sharett
"Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber."
"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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Golda Meir
"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
"Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again."
"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."
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Moshe Sharett
"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."
"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
"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."
"I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry."
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Benny Hinn
"I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry."
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"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."
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A. B. Yehoshua
"We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory."
"I love to work with young kids."
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Itzhak Perlman
"I love to work with young kids."
"I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt."
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Benny Hinn
"I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt."
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"Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?"
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Isaac Yeffet
"Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?"
"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."
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Mordechai Vanunu
"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."
"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."
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Shimon Peres
"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."
"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row."
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Golda Meir
"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row."
"But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing."
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Benny Hinn
"But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing."
"Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy."
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Isaac Yeffet
"Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy."
"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."
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Shimon Peres
"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."
"When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs."
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Moshe Sharett
"When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs."
"We are a small nation, but strong."
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Moshe Dayan
"We are a small nation, but strong."
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"The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains."
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Avi Arad
"The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains."
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"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile."
"There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel."
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Isaac Yeffet
"There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel."
"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."
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Moshe Sharett
"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth."
"A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays."
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Itzhak Perlman
"A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays."
"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."
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Golda Meir
"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."
"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."
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Golda Meir
"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."
"I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer."
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Moshe Dayan
"I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer."
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"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?"
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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?"
"We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient."
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Golda Meir
"We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient."
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"Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?"
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Moshe Dayan
"Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?"
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"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."
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Silvan Shalom
"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."
"The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom."
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Uri Geller
"The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom."
"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
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Haim Ginott
"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
"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."
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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."
"I'm an open book."
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Benny Hinn
"I'm an open book."
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"Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution."
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Uri Geller
"Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution."
"I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values."
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Moshe Katsav
"I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values."
"Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land."
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Moshe Katsav
"Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land."
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
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Uri Geller
"I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil."
"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
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Golda Meir
"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
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Moshe Katsav
"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."
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Mordechai Vanunu
"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."
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