You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIRBy 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?
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
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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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Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
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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.
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