It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIRAs 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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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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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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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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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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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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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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