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Golda Meir

We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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Forgiveness Kill Son War Yourself
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
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
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Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
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
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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Children Foolishness Liberty Oneself Woman
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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Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
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Country Myself Right Way
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
We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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Act God Military Thankful Thrive
Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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Country Division Place
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
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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Deep Pay True Victory War Win
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
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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Death Expression Hope Myself People See Sympathy
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
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Country Fulfill God Legal Promise
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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Deep Peace Side War Win
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
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
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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Children Elimination Enemy Hate Love War
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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Beautiful Blessing Development Myself Resource True
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Ability Fall Mark Short
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself

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