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Quotes by Israeli Authors

"Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers."
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Avi Arad
"Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers."
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"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land."
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Moshe Dayan
"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land."
"The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half."
"I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel."
"So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music."
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Itzhak Perlman
"So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music."
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"We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today."
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Moshe Dayan
"We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today."
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"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
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Moshe Dayan
"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
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"The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him."
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Aharon Appelfeld
"The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him."
"We have a country that is in a very delicate situation."
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Ezer Weizman
"We have a country that is in a very delicate situation."
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"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."
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Abba Eban
"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."
"The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands."
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Moshe Dayan
"The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands."
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"Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it."
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Itzhak Perlman
"Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it."
"That's the goal, to survive your gift."
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Itzhak Perlman
"That's the goal, to survive your gift."
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"One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more."
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A. B. Yehoshua
"One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more."
"In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!"
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Itzhak Perlman
"In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!"
"The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ."
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Benny Hinn
"The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ."
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"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."
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Itzhak Perlman
"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."
"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."
"Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians."
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Ariel Sharon
"Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians."
"The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning."
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A. B. Yehoshua
"The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning."
"In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer."
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Martin van Creveld
"In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer."
"We want peace, but not at any price."
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Ehud Barak
"We want peace, but not at any price."
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"At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere."
"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds."
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Moshe Dayan
"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds."
"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
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Amos Oz
"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
"Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception."
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Amos Oz
"Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception."
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"There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God."
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Itzhak Perlman
"There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God."
"I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite."
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Keren Ann
"I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite."
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"I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do."
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Oded Fehr
"I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do."
"I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow."
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Oded Fehr
"I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow."
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"Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing."
"Give peace a chance."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"Give peace a chance."
"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government."
"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."
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Moshe Dayan
"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."
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"Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities."
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Itzhak Perlman
"Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities."
"I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time."
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Itzhak Perlman
"I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time."
"The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people."
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A. B. Yehoshua
"The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people."
"But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end."
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Benjamin Netanyahu
"But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end."
"I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen."
"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes."
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"I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air."
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Keren Ann
"I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air."
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"At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing."
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Avi Arad
"At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing."
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"Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties."
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Levi Eshkol
"Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties."
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"And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so."
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A. B. Yehoshua
"And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so."
"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people."
"Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time."
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Silvan Shalom
"Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time."
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"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul."
"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."
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Shmuel Y. Agnon
"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."
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"There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
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Moshe Dayan
"There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."
"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear."
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Menachem Begin
"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear."
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