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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

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIR

Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Obstacle Reservation Right
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Age Happiness Joy Sin Time
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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Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIR

Compromise Question Yourself
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
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
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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Country Myself Right Way
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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Conventional Deal History People Public Story
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
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Government Management Myself Time
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking
There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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Decision Difference Kill Oneself Worst

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