"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys."
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"Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew."
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"Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."
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"I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands."
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"We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient."
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"At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent."
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"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."
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"Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."
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"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."
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"Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them."
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"The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations."
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"I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism."
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"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."
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"It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think."
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"Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse."
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"We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others."
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"But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society."
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"Zionism and pessimism are not compatible."
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"We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children."
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"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."
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