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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Golda Meir

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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Finish Home Struggle Thinking Work Yourself
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Death Defend Jew Stand
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
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
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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Children Foolishness Liberty Oneself Woman
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Better Job Man Success Woman
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Existence Reality
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Fashion Freedom Imposition
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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Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
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
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves

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