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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."

"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."

"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
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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."

"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."

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

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."

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

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

"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."

"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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