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Golda Meir

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Children Life Modern Myself Woman Wrong
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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Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Death Family Lost Place Return
I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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Bad Death Give Up Influence Myself Young
Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Death Defend Jew Stand
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Conventional Deal History People Public Story
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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Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
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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Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Memories Oneself Past Present Try
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Existence Reality
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Ability Fall Mark Short
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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Deep Peace Side War Win

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