The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. - Ida B. Wells

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

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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. ― Paulo Coelho

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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. - David Ben-Gurion

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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. - David Ben-Gurion

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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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In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. - David Ben-Gurion

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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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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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