It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIRPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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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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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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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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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 is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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