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Abba Eban has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
• His ignorance is encyclopedic.
• Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
• A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
• Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which…
• It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
• Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
• Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi…
• Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
• Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
• Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what…
• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished…

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