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Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Golda Meir

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 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 not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Joke Sin Time
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
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Memories Oneself Past Present Try
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Ability Fall Mark Short
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Existence Reality
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
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
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
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Age Easy Fly Old Storm Time Wisdom Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
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
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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Greatness Humble Yourself
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.
GOLDA MEIR

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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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Age Old Plane Storm Yourself
Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
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Age Happiness Joy Sin Time

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