"Like most Israelis, I know very little about the Arabs. We just look down on them and see them as a threat. We have absolutely no experience with a democratic country in our vicinity. Is it good or bad for us? I am convinced that democracy isn't just good for the people in those countries, but for Israel as well."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Tom Segev

#Country Quotes #Israel Quotes #People Quotes

“The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.”

Source : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)
“I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.”

Source : "Trickle-Down and Pissed Away" by Reese Schonfeld, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2009.
“I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.”

Source : Song: 4th Chamber, Album: Liquid Swords
“Shambhala vision is universal. It has no bias towards one type of culture or group. It is not ethnocentric and does not encourage one specific kind of person, race, or religion. Shambhala vision promotes a universality in relationship to basic goodness. All human beings are basically good and an enlightened society, at various levels of manifestation, can occur in any culture.”
“Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.”
“Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.”
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”

Source : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1959). “Poetry, 1917-1959”
“The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.”

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