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You can't improve on saying nothing.

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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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh 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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