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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

Golda Meir

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
GOLDA MEIR

Action Impossible President Thinking
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?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Family Lost Place Return
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIR

Memories Oneself Past Present Try
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
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIR

Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Easy Fly Old Storm Time Wisdom Yourself
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIR

Hate Jew Ourselves Pity World
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIR

Compromise Question Yourself
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
GOLDA MEIR

Deep Pay True Victory War Win
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Myself Person See Sensibility
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIR

Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
GOLDA MEIR

Existence Reality

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