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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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" If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. "

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" Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow. "

" It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. "

" 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. "

" A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. "

" A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. "

" 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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" Better to be disliked than pitied. "

" The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. "

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

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" Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. "

" His ignorance is encyclopedic. "

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