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

Golda Meir

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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Action Impossible President Thinking
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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Country Existence Invisble People
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Government Management Myself Time
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Children Country Hate Love Peace
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
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
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
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
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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Country Division Place
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Country Promise Strong
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Forgiveness Kill Son War Yourself
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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Myself Person See Sensibility
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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Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
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

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