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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

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
Sin
Joy
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Seventy
Seventies
Humorous

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We don't want wars even when we win.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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