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

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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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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. - 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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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. -Golda Meir

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Being seventy is not a sin. - Golda Meir

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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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Even paranoids have real enemies. - 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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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go. -Golda Meir

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