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

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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. - Golda Meir

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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. - Golda Meir

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Being seventy is not a sin. - Golda Meir

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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

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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -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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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

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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. - Golda Meir

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