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"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."
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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
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"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."
Happiness
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
Body
"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
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"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."
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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
Friendship
"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
Wisdom
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
Power
"Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."
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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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