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Golda Meir

"Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."

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"Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

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