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132 Israeli Quotes

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.

One Major Keep Cross
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Traveling Desire Cross Boundaries
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Intimate Gold Explore Describe
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Most Difficult Part Process
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing wit

Weapon Suicide Revenge Victim
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Think Claim Part Other
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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.

Major Question Keep Permission
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

Living Through Yourself Better
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Time Tendency Turn Crisis
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Present Erase Past One
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Alternatives Behave Exhausted History
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

First History Morrow Peace
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Tempted Impulsive Sheer Suffer
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Proposals Time Rejected Again
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Always Experience Leaders Mean
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Agree Believes Collectively Consensus
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Achieve Anything Getting Someone
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
Better Disliked Pitied Than
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Ear Elegance Flexibility Glued
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Dialogue Distinction Prove Tasks
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Successful Woman Better Job
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Women Better Worse Men
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority Poisons Takes
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Pessimism Luxury Jew Allow
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Almost Anything Doing Done
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Fashion Freedom Imposition Reign
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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.

About Against Anything Bear
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We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

Alternative War Always Arabs
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Anymore Our True Paid
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Regime Ideals Most Realistic
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

Compromise Either Question
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Cold Detente English Fancy
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Above Being Nobody Country
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Bloom Cotton Grown Israel
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We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Acts Because Efficient God
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Either Laugh Heart Weep
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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.

Found Having Look Men
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Ability Falls Hits Mark
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Art Conventional Dealing History
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
About Bone Dog Finds
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Adversity Better Find Never
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Average Blame Doubt Instinct
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Applause Artist Bouquet Every
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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.

Affected Felt Honestly Never
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Clock Govern Governed Must
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Age Flying Like Nothing
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Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Great Humble You
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