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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Abba Eban

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Agrees Belief Collectively Individually Mean Sarcastic
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
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Men Missing Suffering Tragedy
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
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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Diversity History Ideal Justice Nation Write Writing
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Difference Happen Tragedy
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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Belief Believe Chorus Individual People Say
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
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
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
Israel is not an aviary.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Alternatives Exhausted Human Intelligent
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
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
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
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Clever Encyclopedia Ignorance Sarcastic

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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