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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

It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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Believe Enough Obstacle Struggle
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
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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Believe Obstacle Reservation Right
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Better Job Man Success Woman
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Age Joke Sin Time
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.
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Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young
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
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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List Myself Routine Schedule Slave
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
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Improvement Talk Voice Yourself
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Fashion Freedom Imposition

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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