Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIRTo be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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