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"10 Abba Eban Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 2 February 1915. Died: 17 November 2002 | Diplomat Politician | Scholar |

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

Alternatives Behave Exhausted History
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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.

First History Morrow Peace
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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.

Tempted Impulsive Sheer Suffer
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Proposals Time Rejected Again
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Always Experience Leaders Mean
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Agree Believes Collectively Consensus
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Achieve Anything Getting Someone
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
Better Disliked Pitied Than
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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.

Ear Elegance Flexibility Glued
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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.

Dialogue Distinction Prove Tasks
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Abba Eban Quotes & Sayings