Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
GOLDA MEIRIsrael itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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 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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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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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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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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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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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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