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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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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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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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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You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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 don't want wars even when we win.
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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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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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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 was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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