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.
GOLDA MEIRGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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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.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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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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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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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.
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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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Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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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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