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

Golda Meir

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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Negotiation Peace Road War
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Country Promise Strong
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
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Accomplishment Alone Collection Myself
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
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
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Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
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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Decision Difference Kill Oneself Worst
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Government Ideal Reality World
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
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
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
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism

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