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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Abba Eban

Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Miss Missing never Opportunity Palestinian
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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Contribute Feed Group Horse Research Scared Science Worship
You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way. You can’t be detached and effective.
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Achievement Change Detached Effective Somehow Way
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Experience Leader Leadership Mean Opposite Political
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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Jewish Land More Nothing People
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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Diversity History Ideal Justice Nation Write Writing
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Alternative Behave Exhausted Funny History Men Sarcastic Teach War Wise
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Ear Elegance Glued Movement Neither Permanently Posture Statesman
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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Constant Embodiment Jews Minority Reminder Society
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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Country Nobody Proclaiming
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Agrees Belief Collectively Individually Mean Sarcastic
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Difference Happen Tragedy
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Men Missing Suffering Tragedy
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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Effort Futility Game Golf Humility Learn Life Playing
Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated…to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter.
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Cairo Closing Communicate Doubt Foreign Intention Minister Regard State Strait War
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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God Initiative Men Prophet Salvation Waiting

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

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