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

Golda Meir

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
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
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
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Forgiveness Kill Son War Yourself
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
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Ability Fall Mark Short
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
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.
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Alive Bad Choice Death Image
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Children Elimination Enemy Hate Love War
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Community Fight Friendship Hands Jew Stone
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Existence Reality
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
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIR

Compromise Question Yourself

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