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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"

"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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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