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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.

Abba Eban

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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Could Difference Happen Tragedy
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Agrees Belief Collectively Individually Mean Sarcastic
Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Better Dislike Wish
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
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Men Missing Suffering Tragedy
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
Israel is not an aviary.
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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
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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History Love Peace Sued Thinking Unconditional Victor War
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
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
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
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Clever Encyclopedia Ignorance Sarcastic
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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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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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Miss Missing never Opportunity Palestinian

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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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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