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What is the point of being careful if you have nothing to lose?
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In disputes between parents and children,
the children always get the upper hand.
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Generations come and generations go,
but contention lasts for ever.
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It is easier to destroy than to build.
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Israel's salvation will come through prophets, not diplomats.
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The dreams of one's youth are pleasant,
and one does not easily surrender them.
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What is the true national education? That which makes children absorb the national spirit unconsciously.
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Every generation has its own needs and its own truths.
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Geniuses and their thoughts belong to the whole world.
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A healthy man instinctively loves life.
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Even God will not scorn a bruised and broken heart.
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For the Jews the advantage of Hebrew over other languages is that it is the natural garment of Judaism.
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Only the man who can defend his own honor
is honored by others.
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The more distant and loftier the ideal,
the greater its power to uplift the soul.
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One of the virtues which distinguish the Jewish people
is that they honor those that love them.
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The loftier the thought, the finer the language.
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When a part of your body aches and causes you pain,
you feel intense hatred towards it.
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A people's only national literature is the one written in its national language.
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When a sharp sword is at his throat,
a man does not listen to sense or logic.
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Medicaments have multiplied just as diseases have.
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Have you ever heard of a son rejecting his mother
beause he found a nicer one?
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When does a man begin to feel that old age seized him? When he suddenly sees a new generation that conquers the field of labor and does the work differently from his practice.
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No individual can be constructed entire
without a link with the past.
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Israel's salvation will come through prophets
and not through diplomats.
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Who professes to reform religion is in my eyes
as if he sought to cool fire.