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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.
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
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Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
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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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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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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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We don't want wars even when we win.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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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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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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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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