Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. - Golda Meir

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Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. - Golda Meir

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Paperwork will ruin any military force. -Chesty Puller

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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. Isoroku Yamamoto

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Being seventy is not a sin. - Golda Meir

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I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. — George S. Patton

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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot 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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It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.

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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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