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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.

Abba Eban

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
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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Belief Believe Chorus Individual People Say
Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Difference Happen Tragedy
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
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
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
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
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Men Missing Suffering Tragedy
Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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Alternatives Exhausted Human Intelligent
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Agrees Belief Collectively Individually Mean Sarcastic
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
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
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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Ear Elegance Glued Movement Neither Permanently Posture Statesman
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
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

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