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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.

Golda Meir

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
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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Alive Bad Choice Death Image
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Community Fight Friendship Hands Jew Stone
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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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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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Act God Military Thankful Thrive
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
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Compromise Question Yourself
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
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

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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