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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
Nothing
Improve
Silence
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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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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 Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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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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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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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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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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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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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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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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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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