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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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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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I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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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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