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

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

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.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there’s a good English phrase for it — cold war.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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