History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
ABBA EBANLest 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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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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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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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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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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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
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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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Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People’s sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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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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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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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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