Golda Meir
Golda Meir
Golda Meirwas an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman and politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth3 May 1898
CityKiev, Ukraine
CountryIsrael
artist storm bouquets
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
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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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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
palestinian
There is no such thing as a Palestinian.
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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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You can't improve on saying nothing.
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
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How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.