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Israel is not an aviary.


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CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
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CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
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CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
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SAFAK PAVEY I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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