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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.
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America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?
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Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.
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But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.
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We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution... But now we have them all. And that's a thing that cuts to the heart...
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Born:
May 3, 1898
Died:
December 8, 1978
(aged 80)
Bio:
Golda Meir was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman and politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
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