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When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 104 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Future | Clicks: 192 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine, we asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Work | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents, I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Thought | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There was one occasion when I was very young eight years or seven years old that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our...

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 142 | Rank: 0 | Fav

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion, then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and...

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: War | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Television | Clicks: 191 | Rank: 9.00 | Fav

Partly, because I became in charge of the Ministry of Defense when I was 29 years old, and my parents were still alive, both my father and my mother.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 129 | Rank: 0 | Fav

On the other hand, they wanted to tax the windfalls or profits of the stock exchange. This time, I took the position of the rightists against it.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a...

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Teaching | Clicks: 145 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav

It was the dream, I went to a Hebrew school, at our home, we spoke three languages: Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Dream | Clicks: 209 | Rank: 0 | Fav

In my family, we have had members of the Likud and members of the left. There was a very vivid argument going on all the time.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Family | Clicks: 191 | Rank: 0 | Fav

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Work | Clicks: 151 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Teaching | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I thought if I should be a colonel or a general, there would always be somebody above me, but if I should be a soldier, nobody will command me.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Teaching | Clicks: 183 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I joined the army as a private, I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the...

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 108 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I have a brother younger than me, my mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

Author: Shimon Peres (1923) | Theme: Family | Clicks: 183 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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