"Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim."

-- Shimon Peres

#Swimming Quotes #Israel Quotes #Years Quotes

“He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.”
“See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.”
“Don't wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things.”
“When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.”
“Knowing what matters most, what I call "being real," is the alpha and omega for leaders.”
“Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.”
“Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.”

Source : S. I. HAYAKAWA (1941). “LANGUAGE IN ACTION”
“Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.”

Source : Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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