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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
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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 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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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We don't want wars even when we win.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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 Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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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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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Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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 say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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