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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."
"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement."
"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."
"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."
"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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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."
"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."
"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."
"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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