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

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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. - David Ben-Gurion

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Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. - David Ben-Gurion

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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. - David Ben-Gurion

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Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. -Diogenes

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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 not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. - David Ben-Gurion

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Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. - David Ben-Gurion

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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