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Golda Meir

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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