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

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

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"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."

"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."

"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."

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

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

"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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