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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

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
Values
Every
Munich
Compromises
Negotiate
Finds
Compromise
Necessary
Civilization

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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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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 don't want wars even when we win.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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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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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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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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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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