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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Golda Meir

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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Age Easy Fly Old Storm Time Wisdom Yourself
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Better Job Man Success Woman
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry
It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Age Joke Sin Time
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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Decision Difference Kill Oneself Worst
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Ability Fall Mark Short
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Children Life Modern Myself Woman Wrong
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIR

Compromise Question Yourself
Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young
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

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