"You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty."
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"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."
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"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."
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"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."
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"The dog that trots about finds a bone."
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"From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror."
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"There is no such thing as a Palestinian."
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"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."
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"I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young."
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"There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed."
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"The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals."
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"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this."
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"If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place."
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"It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke."
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"Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be."
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"There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore."
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"We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win."
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"Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either."
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"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
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"I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace."
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