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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
Improve
Silence
Saying
Nothing

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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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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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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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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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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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We don't want wars even when we win.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.
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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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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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 want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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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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