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Work is a high human function...the most dignified thing in the life of man.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

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In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

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In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people.... And after the nation turned back to its land with strength, it protected it steadfastly....

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It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

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Thought is a strenuous art -- few practice it, and then only at rare times.

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If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault They see but one thing we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that

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We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.

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would convey a blessing to the Arab people.

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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

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We must expel the Arabs and take their places.

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Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

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Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

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Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

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Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

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If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

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Our policy must be the unity of the human race. The world is divided into two blocs. We consider that the United Nations is a Jewish ideal.

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The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

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There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

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