"Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs."

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Source : TIME Magazine, July 24, 2006.

David Ben-Gurion

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“I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.”
“Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.”
“More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.”

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“Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.”
“My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.”
“I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.”
“Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.”
“An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.”

Source : Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.218, Anchor

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