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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.

Golda Meir

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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Country Myself Right Way
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
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
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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Average Blame Doubt Himself Logic Man Praise
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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Death Expression Hope Myself People See Sympathy
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Children Elimination Enemy Hate Love War
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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Act God Military Thankful Thrive
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.
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Country Existence Invisble People
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.
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Myself Person See Sensibility
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Battle Hesitation Himself Leadership Nation
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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Age Easy Fly Old Storm Time Wisdom Yourself
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Hate Jew Ourselves Pity World

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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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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