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"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."

"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."

"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."

"It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years."
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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."

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

"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."
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