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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Golda Meir

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Conventional Deal History People Public Story
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Improvement Talk Voice Yourself
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
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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Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
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
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Better Job Man Success Woman
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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Country Division Place
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Battle Hesitation Himself Leadership Nation
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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Death Expression Hope Myself People See Sympathy
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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Decision Difference Kill Oneself Worst
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
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Children Life Modern Myself Woman Wrong
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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Children Country Hate Love Peace
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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Country Myself Right Way
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
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Country Promise Strong
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Existence Reality
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Fashion Freedom Imposition
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Children Elimination Enemy Hate Love War
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Negotiation Peace Road War
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Government Ideal Reality World
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
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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Hate Jew Ourselves Pity World
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

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