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We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Golda Meir

How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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Children Life Modern Myself Woman Wrong
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Greatness Humble Yourself
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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Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Country Promise Strong
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Better Job Man Success Woman
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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Country Division Place
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
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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Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Government Management Myself Time
This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Country Fulfill God Legal Promise
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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Children Day Study Weird Yourself
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Death Family Lost Place Return

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