"For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land."

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Source : Ehud Olmert's address to the Congress in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. May 24, 2006.

Ehud Olmert

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“If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.”
“The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.'”
“...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.”
“Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.9, Courier Corporation
“Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1851). “Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series”, p.342
“Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.”
“Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.”

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