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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I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

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I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

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Even paranoids have real enemies. - 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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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't 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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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -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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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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