Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
ABBA EBANIt is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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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.
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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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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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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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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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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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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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