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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"It's a man's world, and you men can have it."

"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."
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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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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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