Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIRIt is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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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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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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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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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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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