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Golda Meir

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

Age Joke Sin Time
I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Afraid Heart Myself People Sorry
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
GOLDA MEIR

Man Myself Talk Togetherness Woman Worst
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
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR

Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking
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
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
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Guilty Habit 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
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
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
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
The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Life Modern Myself Woman Wrong
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

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