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.
GOLDA MEIRMen who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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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.
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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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.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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.
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It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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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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