I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it: cold war.
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I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution. But now we have them all. And that's a thing that cuts to the heart...
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
What person with any sense likes himself? I know myself too well to like myself.
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America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom!
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
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I am also grateful that I live in a country whose people have learned how to go on living in a sea of hatred without hating those who want to destroy them and without abandoning their own vision of peace. To have learned this is a great art, the prescription for which is not written down anywhere. It is part of our way of life in Israel. Finally, I wish to say that from the time I came to Palestine as a young woman, we have been forced to choose between what is more dangerous and what is less dangerous for us. At times we have all been tempted to give in to various pressures and to accept proposals that might guarantee us a little quiet for a few months, or maybe even for a few years, but that could only lead us eventually into even greater peril.
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It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
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Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided: not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle?
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