We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient. - Golda Meir

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Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

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

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

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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. - Golda Meir

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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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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -John F. Kennedy

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Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. - 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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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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