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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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From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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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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We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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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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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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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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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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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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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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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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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