"Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke us... The Arabs stand to gain from such a development. They want the country to be in a state of perpetual pogrom.... Any further bloodshed [by the Jews] will only bring political advantage to the Arabs and harm us... Our strength is in the defense... and this strength will give us political victory if England and the world will know that we are defending ourselves rather than attacking."

-- David Ben-Gurion

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“What keeps me interested--and it always does--is how can she be a bad actress on film but a good one in reality?”
“My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.”

Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House
“All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.”
“It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.”
“No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.”

Source : "5 Things to Know About Scott Pelley". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 05, 2011.
“One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.”
“His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.”
“I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.”

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