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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
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"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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