"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the [Palestinian] Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying. . . . It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness."

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Source : "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

Moshe Dayan

#Army Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Government Quotes

“I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.”
“People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.”
“As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

Source : Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.
“Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.”

Source : Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.346, Stanford University Press
“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”
“My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.”
“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”

Source : Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.5, Anchor

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