The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. - 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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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. - 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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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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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny

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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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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa

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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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