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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
Improve
Silence
Saying
Nothing

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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We don't want wars even when we win.
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Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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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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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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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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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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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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