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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
- Abba Eban
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#Many
#People Say
#People
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
- Abba Eban
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#Them
#Time
#Today
#Tomorrow
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
#Anti-Semitism
#Dialogue
#Prove
#World
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
#Jews
#Living
#Minorities
#Minority
#Owe
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
- Abba Eban
#Elegance
#Ground
#Movement
#Who
#Will
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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#Men
#Rejection
#Routine
#Tragedy
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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#History
#Peace
#Surrender
#War
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
- Abba Eban
#Achieve
#Anything
#Someone
#Way
#Without
Better to be disliked than pitied.
- Abba Eban
#Better
#Disliked
#Pitied
#Than
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
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#Exhausted
#Men
#Nations
#Once
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
#Earth
#Israel
#Pass
#Resolution
#Vote
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
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#Exhausted
#History
#Men
#Once
#Us
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
- Abba Eban
#His
#Ignorance
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
- Abba Eban
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#Mean
#Political
#Politics
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
- Abba Eban
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#Everyone
#Means
#Say
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