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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

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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But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.
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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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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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It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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 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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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