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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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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
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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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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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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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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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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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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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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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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives
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