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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
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Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
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Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.
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Physical courage is a great test.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
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But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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