One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

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About Golda Meir

Portrait of Golda Meir

Golda Meir (previously Meyerson; née Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was a Ukrainian-American-Israeli stateswoman, trade unionist, activist, and teacher who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government.

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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

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

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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

—George Orwell

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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

—Mary Ellen Kelly

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The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

—Shalom Aleichem

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