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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

Golda Meir

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
GOLDA MEIR

Act God Military Thankful Thrive
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

Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Day Study Weird Yourself
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Family Lost Place Return
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
GOLDA MEIR

Government Management Myself Time
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
GOLDA MEIR

Battle Hesitation Himself Leadership Nation
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
GOLDA MEIR

Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
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
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
GOLDA MEIR

Improvement Talk Voice Yourself
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Life Modern Myself Woman Wrong
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Bad Death Give Up Influence Myself Young
Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Obstacle Reservation Right
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking

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