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"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." — Abba Eban
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"The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be." — Abba Eban
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"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." — Abba Eban
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"When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog." — Abba Eban
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"Israel is not an aviary." — Abba Eban
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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." — Abba Eban
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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." — Abba Eban
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"Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals." — Abba Eban
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"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say." — Abba Eban
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"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." — Abba Eban
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"His ignorance is encyclopedic" — Abba Eban
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"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" — Abba Eban
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"Better to be disliked than pitied" — Abba Eban
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"Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today, and longed for them tomorrow" — Abba Eban
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"You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way" — Abba Eban
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"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement" — Abba Eban
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"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually" — Abba Eban
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"His ignorance is encyclopedic." — Abba Eban
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"A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually." — Abba Eban
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"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement." — Abba Eban
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"Better to be disliked than pitied." — Abba Eban
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