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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.

Golda Meir

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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry
We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Battle War Win
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIR

Greatness Humble Yourself
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Bloom Growth Happiness Kind Victory
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIR

Ability Fall Mark Short
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy Yourself
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Expression Hope Myself People See Sympathy
We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
GOLDA MEIR

Act God Military Thankful Thrive
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR

Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking
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 MEIR

Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIR

Hate Jew Ourselves Pity World
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Elimination Enemy Hate Love War
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry

Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.

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