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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We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. - 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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. -Golda Meir

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

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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -Golda Meir

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It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? 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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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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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. – Georg W. F. Hegel

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