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

Golda Meir

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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Achievement Creation Flame Happiness Kind Life Possible Trust Yourself
We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Battle War Win
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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Alive Bad Choice Death Image
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
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
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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Believe Enough Obstacle Struggle
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Country Promise Strong
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
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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Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Country Fulfill God Legal Promise
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
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Existence Reality
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I’m not what I’d like to be.
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Myself Person See Sensibility
I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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Community Fight Friendship Hands Jew Stone

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