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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.

Abba Eban

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Difference Happen Tragedy
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Clever Encyclopedia Ignorance Sarcastic
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
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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History Love Peace Sued Thinking Unconditional Victor War
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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Declare Earth Flat Flattered Introduce Vote
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
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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Ambition Domineer Evil Idolatry Man Nourish Social Source
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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Dialogue Distinction Task World
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Men Missing Suffering Tragedy
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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Arab Government Impulsive Men Missing Rejection Routine Rush Sheer Tempted
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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Better Dislike Wish
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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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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