Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIRWe Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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.
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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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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.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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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.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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