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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

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Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

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His ignorance is encyclopedic.

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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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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

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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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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

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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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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. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.

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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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Israel is not an aviary.

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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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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. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

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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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Better to be disliked than pitied.

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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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Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

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