One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIROld age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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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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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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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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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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