Abba Eban Quotes
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Quotes to Explore
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I love action movies.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval.
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Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
