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Golda Meir
Israeli
Leader
Born:
May 3
,
1898
Died:
Dec 8
,
1978
Anything
Better
Heart
Me
Men
You
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
Life
You
Achievement
Be Happy
Trust
Happy
Yourself
Will
Live
Possibility
Kind
All Your Life
Self
Most
Make
Flames
Tiny
Fanning
Create
Sparks
Your
Inner
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
You
Age
Old
Old Age
Nothing
Once
Flying
Through
Like
Storm
Plane
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
Me
You
Took
East
Tell
Something
Through
He
Moses
Spot
Israelis
Years
Middle
Oil
Order
Middle East
Against
Us
Desert
Bring
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir
Leadership
Battle
Leader
Nation
Before
Hesitate
He
His
Fit
Sends
Who
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Heart
Those
Laugh
Weep
Know
How
Either
Who
Whole
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir
Beautiful
Me
Blessing
Overcome
Girl
Pretty Girl
Resources
Pretty
Develop
True
Forced
Handicap
Being
Being Beautiful
Inner
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
Golda Meir
Struggle
Jews
Secret
Our
Secret Weapon
Arabs
Weapon
Go
Place
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Golda Meir
Women
Better
Men
Worse
Say
Women Are
Than
Cannot
Whether
Certainly
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
Golda Meir
Adversity
You
Better
Partner
Find
Never
Than
Sparring
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
Golda Meir
You
Compromise
Question
Either
To Be Or Not To Be
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda Meir
Kind
Cotton
New
Israel
New Kind
Bloom
Victories
Strawberries
Grown
Rejoice
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda Meir
Luxury
Allow
Never
Himself
Pessimism
Jew
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
Golda Meir
War
Secret
Our
Secret Weapon
Arabs
Weapon
Had
Alternative
Said
Always
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Golda Meir
Fight
Before
Syria
Run
Only
Could
Well
Did
Egypt
Egyptians
Place
Might
Sea
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir
Man
Woman
Equality
Better
Job
Than
Much
Successful
Her
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Golda Meir
Man
Blame
Nothing
Doubt
Satisfied
Kicks
Says
No Doubt
More
Blames
He
Instinct
Most
Praises
His
Up
Than
Average
Much
Average Man
Row
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
Women
Men
Liberation
About
Bear
Foolishness
No-One
Likely
Lot
Discriminated
Just
Children
Anything
Against
Who
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Golda Meir
Our
True
Won
Want
Anymore
Victories
Them
Paid
Wars
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
Success
Honestly
Right Thing
Say
Possible
Outcome
Never
Felt
Undertaking
Affected
Question
The Right Thing
Regardless
Right
Thing
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda Meir
God
Thank God
Thrive
Military
Because
Efficient
Thank
Them
Acts
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda Meir
Everybody
Poisons
Takes
Himself
Authority
Who
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
Golda Meir
Thought
President
President Nixon
Presidents
Says
Nixon
Would
Almost
Almost Anything
Nobody
Doing
Done
Anything
Many
Things
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.
Golda Meir
Waiting
World
Men
Other
Secret
Out
Having
Perfectly
Look
Reached
Sure
Passed
Were
The Secret Of
Forty-Five
Who
Found
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Golda Meir
Fashion
Freedom
Imposition
Reign
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Golda Meir
Mark
Presumption
Ability
Falls
Hits
Short
Where
Diffidence
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