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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir
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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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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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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 alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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You can't improve on saying nothing.
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We don't want wars even when we win.
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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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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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.
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