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Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Golda Meir

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 Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIR

Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIR

Forgiveness Kill Son War Yourself
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Government Ideal Reality World
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIR

Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst
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
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
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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Average Blame Doubt Himself Logic Man Praise
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIR

Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
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
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
We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Battle War Win
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Government Management Myself 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
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIR

Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Death Family Lost Place Return
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Promise Strong
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Finish Home Struggle Thinking Work Yourself
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
GOLDA MEIR

Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
GOLDA MEIR

Achievement Creation Flame Happiness Kind Life Possible Trust Yourself
Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Defend Jew Stand
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Age Joke Sin Time
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Man Perfection Reach Secret Wait

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

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