Shimon Peres Quotes

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• To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.
• I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent…
• If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with…
• We should use our imagination more than our memory.
• The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world…
• Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I…
• I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First…
• 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…
• Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and…
• The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel…
• In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
• You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
• The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider…
• When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace,…
• The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science…
• Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew…
• Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
• From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to…
• You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar
• I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and…

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