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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

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
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Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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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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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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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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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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 only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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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 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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