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

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

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• ‟ I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

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• ‟ Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

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• ‟ I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from the kibbutz to serve in the underground. We were short of manpower, short of arms. I was 24 years old. I was supposed to serve my country for one or two years. I am 89 years old this year, and I keep going.

  - Shimon Peres