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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
Imposition
Reign
Fashion
Freedom

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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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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 Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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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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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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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'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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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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