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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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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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We don't want wars even when we win.
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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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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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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.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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