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Shimon Peres

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The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.


— Shimon Peres


#fear #life #morality #wisdom #life

We should use our imagination more than our memory.


— Shimon Peres


#history #imagination #peace #progress #imagination

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.


— Shimon Peres


#become #believe #closest #closest friends #friends

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.


— Shimon Peres


#cultures #east #generations #matter #middle

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.


— Shimon Peres


#alternatives #exist #first #first thing #look

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.


— Shimon Peres


#dreaming #me #pragmatic #simply

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.


— Shimon Peres


#got #her #i #librarian #me

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.


— Shimon Peres


#how #literature #me #mentor #personal

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.


— Shimon Peres


#basketball #because #good #good student #happy

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.


— Shimon Peres


#dictatorship #impossible #made #television #unbearable






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Peres remained active in politics however serving as Rabin's foreign minister from 1992. Peres announced however that he supported Olmert and would remain with Kadima. In 1941 he was elected Secretary of Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed a Labor Zionist youth movement and in 1944 returned to Alumot where he worked as a dairy farmer Shimon Perespherd and kibbutz secretary.

Peres was nominated in early 2007 by Kadima to run in that year's presidential election and was elected by the Knesset to the presidency on 13 June 2007 and sworn into office on 15 July 2007 for a seven-year term. Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister producing the Oslo Accords. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952 and Director-General in 1953 through 1959.

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