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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Ability Fall Mark Short
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Decision Difference Kill Oneself Worst
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Improvement Talk Voice Yourself
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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Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
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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Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Division Place
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
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR

Conventional Deal History People Public Story
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Compromise Question Yourself
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
Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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Believe Obstacle Reservation Right
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry

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