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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Obstacle Reservation Right
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Life Modern Myself Woman Wrong
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Management Myself Time
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Existence Invisble People
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIR

List Myself Routine Schedule Slave
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Ideal Reality World
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIR

Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
GOLDA MEIR

Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True
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
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR

Conventional Deal History People Public Story
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Myself Person See Sensibility
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIR

Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR

Better Job Man Success Woman
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time

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