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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
Politician
Teacher
Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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Humor
Dead
Alive
Choices
Pitied
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Humorous
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Israel
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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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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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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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We don't want wars even when we win.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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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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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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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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs we have no place to go.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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