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

Golda Meir

Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
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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Children Foolishness Liberty Oneself Woman
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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Country Division Place
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIR

Memories Oneself Past Present Try
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Greatness Humble Yourself
Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Death Defend Jew Stand
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
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIR

Negotiation Peace Road War
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
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
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Existence Invisble People
We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Forgiveness Kill Son War Yourself
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
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.
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Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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Deep Pay True Victory War Win

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