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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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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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I worked with a group of people who argued day and night – professors, officials, the Minister of Finance – but there were decisions that I had to make. – Shimon Peres

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finance
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The Jews greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! Were a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. – Shimon Peres

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History
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The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. – James Robertson

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History

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. – John Malkovich

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History

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. – Howard Nemerov

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History

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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History

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. – Charles Baudelaire

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