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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

Golda Meir

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself
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 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
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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Action Impossible President Thinking
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
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
GOLDA MEIR

Greatness Humble Yourself
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
GOLDA MEIR

Finish Home Struggle Thinking Work Yourself
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
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
Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Defend Jew Stand
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIR

List Myself Routine Schedule Slave
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
There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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Country Existence Invisble People
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 don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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Bad Death Give Up Influence Myself Young
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Happiness Joy Sin Time

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

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