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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?

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Finish Home Struggle Thinking Work Yourself
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIR

Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Elimination Enemy Hate Love War
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
GOLDA MEIR

Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
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
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIR

Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Expression Hope Myself People See Sympathy
From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Improvement Talk Voice Yourself
We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIR

Forgiveness Kill Son War Yourself
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIR

Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
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?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Management Myself Time
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR

Better Job Man Success Woman

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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