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Quote by Abba Eban
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals. – 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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People
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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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Peace
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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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Politics
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. – John Jay Chapman

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but weve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. – Rudyard Kipling

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Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit. – Proverb

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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a peoples safety and greatness. – Grover Cleveland

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I think its important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think its great I get to travel the world with my daughter. – Salma Hayek

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Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy wont. – Hyman Rickover

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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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