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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
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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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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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Physical courage is a great test.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
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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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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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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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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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To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
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America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
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