Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
GOLDA MEIRYou can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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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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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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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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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
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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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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