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Don't be so humble - you are not that great.Golda Meir
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Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!Golda Meir
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.Golda Meir
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.Golda Meir
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Golda Meir
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Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh eitherGolda Meir
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A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!Golda Meir
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There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.Golda Meir
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.Golda Meir
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Don't be humble. You're not that great.Golda Meir
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The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.Golda Meir
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Not being beautiful was the true blessing.... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.Golda Meir
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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
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Don't be so humble. You're not that great.Golda Meir
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I must govern the clock not be governed by it.Golda Meir
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I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.Golda Meir
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.Golda Meir
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.Golda Meir
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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.Golda Meir
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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.Golda Meir
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?Golda Meir
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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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We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.Golda Meir
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.Golda Meir
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.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.Golda Meir
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Being seventy is not a sin.Golda Meir
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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.Golda Meir
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.Golda Meir
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.Golda Meir
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.Golda Meir
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Don't be humble... you're not that great.Golda Meir
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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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The dog that trots about finds a bone.Golda Meir
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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
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.Golda Meir