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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.

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
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Kiev
Golda Meyerson
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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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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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know I've never been a man minister.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
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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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