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Israeli
-
Diplomat
February 2
, 1915 -
November 17
, 2002
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban
Elegance
Will
Ground
Movement
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
Abba Eban
Say
Everyone
Consensus
Means
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
Peace
War
History
Think
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban
Men
Exhausted
Behave
Once
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
World
Prove
Dialogue
Anti-Semitism
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
Vote
Earth
Israel
Pass
Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban
Better
Than
Disliked
Pitied
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
Ignorance
His
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
Abba Eban
Believe
People
People Say
Say
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
History
Men
Us
Exhausted
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
Me
Men
Rejection
Tragedy
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
Abba Eban
Time
Today
Tomorrow
Them
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
Living
Minority
Owe
Jews
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban
Politics
Experience
Political
Always
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
Abba Eban
You
Someone
Way
Achieve
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