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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

As Good as Golda : The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister (1970)

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

I am a Palestinian, from 1921 to 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport.

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.

John Wolcot

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