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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
Trots
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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