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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.

Golda Meir

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Country Promise Strong
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
It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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Believe Enough Obstacle Struggle
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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Age Man Perfection Reach Secret Wait
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
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
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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Alive Bad Choice Death Image
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
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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List Myself Routine Schedule Slave
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
I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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Bad Death Give Up Influence Myself Young
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
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
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
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Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True

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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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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