Escritas — Poems List

David Ben-Gurion

I am not in a

I am not in a hurry, I can wait ten years. We are under no pressure whatsoever.

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Marquis de Vauvenargues

When a thought is too

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man builds a fine

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

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Michel de Montaigne

There is as much difference

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

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Menachem Begin

Israel will not transfer Judea,

Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.

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Marquis de Vauvenargues

It is not true that

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.

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Francis Bacon

Houses are built to live

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

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Eric Temple Bell

Any impatient student of mathematics

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

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Marquis de Vauvenargues

To achieve great things we

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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Menachem Begin

The Partition of Palestine is

The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

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Charles W. Eliot

Books are the quietest and

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

131

Marquis de Vauvenargues

Hatred of dishonesty generally arises

Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

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Menachem Begin

Things you see from there

Things you see from there are not what you see from here.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Many books require no thought

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

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Albert Einstein

The hardest thing in the

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

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Carl Van Vechten

There are two kinds of

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

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Benjamin Netanyahu

The Obama presidency has two

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

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F. J. Raymond

Next to being shot at

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

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Jonathan Swift

Ambition often puts men upon

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

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Benjamin Netanyahu

First of all, Arafat is

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

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Rig Veda

Let the stronger man give

Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.

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W. H. Auden

Among those whom I like

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

129

Bill Veeck

Look, we play the Star

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

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