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Golda Meir

We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Battle War Win
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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Alive Bad Choice Death Image
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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Action Impossible President Thinking
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
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Improvement Talk Voice Yourself
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIR

Deep Pay True Victory War Win
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Greatness Humble Yourself
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Conventional Deal History People Public Story
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
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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Bad Death Give Up Influence Myself Young
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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List Myself Routine Schedule Slave
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value

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