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- The Observer (29 December 1974)
We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Vogue (July 1969)
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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
At a dinner honoring West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, as reported in The New York Times (11 June 1973, p. 3)
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.