If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

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Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

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Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

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Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

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The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

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Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

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There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

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