Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIRYou’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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.
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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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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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