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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.

Golda Meir

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
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
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Greatness Humble Yourself
If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.
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Alive Bad Choice Death Image
How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don’t know; I’ve never been a man minister.
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Feeling Man Minister Myself Woman
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
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Age Joke Sin Time
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
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
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Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Government Management Myself Time
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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Finish Home Struggle Thinking Work Yourself
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
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
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.
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Age Man Perfection Reach Secret Wait
I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
GOLDA MEIR

Community Fight Friendship Hands Jew Stone
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
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
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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Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Country Promise Strong
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Battle Hesitation Himself Leadership Nation
My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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Age Easy Fly Old Storm Time Wisdom Yourself
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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Myself Person See Sensibility
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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Country Himself Morning Problem Thinking Worry
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
You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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Improvement Talk Voice Yourself
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

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