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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement."

"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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