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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how...

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The past is our very being.

In Israel in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

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

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

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

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In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

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

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

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from F...

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David Ben-Gurion

Former Prime Minister of Israel

Born: 1886-10-16

Died: 1973-12-01

David Ben-Gurion (16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the first Prime Minister of Israel. He was an active Zionist campaigner before the establishment of the Jewish state, and played an instrumental role in Israel when the British Mandate in Palestine ended. He carried Israel through the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and led the country in its first years of existence, not leaving office for the last time until 1963.More