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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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Country Division Place
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Battle War Win
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Government Ideal Reality World
Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
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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Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself
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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Age Man Perfection Reach Secret Wait
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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Myself Person See Sensibility
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Children Country Hate Love Peace
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Better Job Man Success Woman
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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