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“It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? . . . Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
— Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel
Fallaci interview (1973)
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