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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.

Oriana Fallaci

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
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But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madnessif you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.
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No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
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I am angry at the Jews for many things... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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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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