A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its ‘right to exist.’ Israel’s right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
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