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Abba Eban

"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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"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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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

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"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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"The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth."

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"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."

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"That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb."

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"Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals."
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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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"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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"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
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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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"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
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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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"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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