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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
"And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?"
"I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you."
Explore more quotes by Abba Eban
"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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