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Abba Eban

"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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"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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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

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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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"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
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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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"Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow."
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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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