You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRAs President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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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.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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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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