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Quotes by Israeli Authors
"I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half."
"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."
"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."
"We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions."
"Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'"
"I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us."
"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."
"A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays."
"What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face."
"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
"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."
"Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled."
"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."
"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible."
"So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel."
"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 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."
"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."
"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works."
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
"My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb."
"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."
"If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state."
"The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed."
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development."
"We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient."
"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."
"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."
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