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

Golda Meir

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
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
Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
GOLDA MEIR

Civilization Compromise Necessary Negotiation Value
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
GOLDA MEIR

Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
GOLDA MEIR

Fear Happiness Memories Myself Terror Tragedy 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
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
Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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Commitment Man Rape
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Ability Fall Mark Short
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Believe Obstacle Reservation Right
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Fulfill God Legal Promise
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 must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Government Management Myself Time
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIR

Fashion Freedom Imposition
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time

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

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