Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIRThe Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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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.
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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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 Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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