The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIRThere will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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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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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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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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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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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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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