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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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
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I also like men who have hands with big masculine veins that you can squish and move.
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The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They've sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
