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“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.”

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

“The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

“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.”

Resonant Thoughts

"You, why do you let me say such things when and where I shouldn’t?” “the problem is not ordering the course of your speech. Its shutting you up in the first place"

— Alice Borchardt

Literature1939–2007

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