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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

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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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Constant Embodiment Jews Minority Reminder Society
Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Better Dislike Wish
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
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
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Alternatives Exhausted Human Intelligent
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
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
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
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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Diversity History Ideal Justice Nation Write Writing
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Miss Missing never Opportunity Palestinian
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
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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Israel is not an aviary.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Difference Happen Tragedy
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

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

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