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9 Great Quotes From Golda Meir

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1.
"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."
2.
"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."
3.
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely."
4.
"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."
5.
"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!"
6.
"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative."
7.
"Don't be so humble, you aren't that great."
8.
"A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader".
9.
"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us."