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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour."
"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother."
"I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen."
"Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability."
"I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity."
"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
"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 believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time."
"I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt."
"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."
"I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook."
"The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America."
"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
"It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud."
"The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country."
"I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts."
"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."
"Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people."
"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."
"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."
"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."
"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."
"But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom."
"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime."
"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight."
"Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living."
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works."
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