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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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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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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
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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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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Jewish Land More Nothing People
Better to be disliked than pitied.
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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.
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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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Israel is not an aviary.
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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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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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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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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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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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