Quote by Shimon Peres
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My m

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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He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was – I wouldnt say the guru – but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. – Shimon Peres

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teacher
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What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? – Shimon Peres

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Future
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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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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. – Ken Kesey

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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. – Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos

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The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. – Simon Wiesenthal

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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite… bonding with him, in a weird way. – Teddy Thompson

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I want you to see that Im looking. Look at me look at you. Im cool with that. – Busta Rhymes

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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

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