We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIRI’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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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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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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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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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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We don’t want wars even when we win.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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