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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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Amber Hurdle

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

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"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."

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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

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"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

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"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

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"I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth."

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"The Earth's health is the only standard that is all-encompassing enough to overcome the ethnic, cultural, religious, and national tensions that are rending the world asunder. Only the Earth can become the central axis around which which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."

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