Quote by Shimon Peres
Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the Bri

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances. – Shimon Peres

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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 of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. – Shimon Peres

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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 wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital. – Shimon Peres

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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 and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. – Shimon Peres

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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. – Andre Breton

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. – Johnny Carson

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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense hes a universalist. – Peter Singer

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