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 EBANA nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man’s initiative.
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
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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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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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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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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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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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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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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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