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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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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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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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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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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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Agreement

What usually comes first is the contract. – Ira Gershwin

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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. – Samuel Butler

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A verbal contract isnt worth the paper its written on. – Samuel Goldwyn

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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. – Andrew Jackson

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran