It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIRAnybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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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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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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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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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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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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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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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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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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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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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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