There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
GOLDA MEIRThe Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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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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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
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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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Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
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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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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
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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.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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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.
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We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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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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