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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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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."
"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."
"The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be."
"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."
"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement."
"Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow."
"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."
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
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