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President Shimon Peres (Oriah Tadmor / Jini)
May 30, 2008
28 thoughts on politics, power and wisdom
By Shimon Peres
Tags: Israel 
To nominate a person is like choosing a road... You don't have to change your religion. Change your economy...

Thoughts...

1. You don't have to change your religion. Change your economy...

2. You do not have to redefine your borders. Improve your relations...
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3. The most important separation in our time is the separation between religion and terror...

4. Democracy in our age is not only the right to be equal, but also the equal right to be different...

5. Modern democracy is based not only on the freedom of speech, but also on the right to breathe fresh air...

6. Teach the history of wisdom. Hear the call of a new future...

7. Modern economy is not only global but individual as well. Single men are able to create realms of prosperity by innovation, and without imposition...

8. Environment and economy are tied together. They're not submitted to political borders. To ignore one of them is to endanger the balance of our existence...

9. What shall be discovered is more important than the knowledge which has been accumulated thus far...

10. Governments are based on power, laws, armies and policies, whereas non-governmental organizations are based on the strength of good will...

11. The real power of our time is the strength of goodwill...

12. Good manners are not less important than elaborated laws...

13. To nominate a person is like choosing a road...

14. The age of borders, distances and discriminations was over the minute science replaced land...

15. Look upon every man as a brother and upon every woman as a sister. Invite them to be your guest and accept their invitation of being your host...

16. What was discovered until now is but a small portion of the unknown. We still know little about the capacity of our brains, about space and the oceans...

17. To learn how to learn is a must in changing times...

18. To be ready for the challenges of tomorrow is even more important than to be up to date today...

19. Don?t be afraid to be alone. To be wrong is more dangerous...

20. One's greatest return is when one's children are better than oneself...

21. Destinations are more important than parking lots...

22. To think is more important than to remember...

23. Values should decide prices. Not the other way around...

24. To exercise one's mind is as important as the exercise of the rest of the body...

25. Take a risk by trusting people, rather than lose them on the basis of suspicion...

26. It is better to be led by the people, than to impose one's leadership upon them...

27. It is better to be a composer than a conductor. New symphonies are music to the ears of the young...

28. Peace is not reached by winning points, but by convincing one's opponent of the benefits of living together..
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  1.   Is Peres starting a greeting card company? 11:30  |  Natallie Durson 30/05/08
  2.   His thoughts are as unpleasant as his voice 12:14  |  Rowan 30/05/08
  3.   best president 12:16  |  gino 30/05/08
  4.   Daldas Sabba or Sabba Simpson? 12:57  |  Alex 30/05/08
  5.   Good one Natallie Durson 14:26  |  Bemused 30/05/08
  6.   Your thoughts Mr Peres 14:58  |  Said 30/05/08
  7.   All You Peres Bashers 16:03  |  Yossi Stein 30/05/08
  8.   Science is the learning of thinking 16:25  |  eric 30/05/08
  9.   to Said 17:10  |  Gman 30/05/08
  10.   Very Wise words 18:17  |  Samuel Goldbloom 30/05/08
  11.   Peres needs to be investigated 18:45  |  fred 30/05/08
  12.   Gman 19:12  |  Said 30/05/08
  13.   Meditation, try to train your self on those words rather 19:29  |  Simon Mohammed 30/05/08
  14.   He still turns his back on his people, so what of his words? 20:49  |  smarter then Peres 30/05/08
  15.   Indeed, words of statesman Israel is proud of 04:56  |  Smadar 31/05/08
  16.   Best President Israel Has Ever Had 06:03  |  Jason C. 31/05/08
  17.   SHIMON PERES 06:39  |  DAVID 31/05/08
  18.   For his age 07:57  |  Baz Mann 31/05/08
  19.   Peres wisdom 09:39  |  Daniel 31/05/08
  20.   Speech made from spam e-mail with sights and children laughing 21:17  |  Alain 31/05/08
  21.   So, Mr President: where are the bike-ways, the green gas stations 21:19  |  Alain 31/05/08
  22.   Sold to the highest bidder 21:32  |  J. Friedman 31/05/08
  23.   Fortune cookie inserts 04:22  |  Isadora 02/06/08
  24.   Peres, whatever he does now 00:56  |  jo mama 11/06/08
  25.   territorial expansion 00:10  |  lionel levy 13/06/08
  26.   israel 22:46  |  im777ja.blog.ru 17/06/08
  27.   Politics, power and wisdom 13:38  |  Emil Simiu 24/06/08
  28.   Peres: This generation is hopeless 15:10  |  Shmuel 25/06/08
  29.   fragile peace 09:54  |  lionel levy 26/06/08
  30.   YOU 00:04  |  Kayed Masarweh 28/06/08
  31.   al dura affair 20:45  |  lionel levy 30/06/08
  32.   Capable and productive. 17:37  |  me 10/07/08
  33.   Capable and productive. 17:44  |  Monroe 10/07/08
  34.   celebration over prisoner exchange 18:08  |  lionel levy 16/07/08
  35.   Nuclear Disarmament 22:40  |  Jack 25/07/08
  36.   Peres 11:16  |  Shereen 13/08/08
  37.   genious 00:45  |  vino 23/08/08
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