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I don't want to hear about my death.

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
War Correspondent
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Tuscany
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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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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Journalism combines adventure with culture.
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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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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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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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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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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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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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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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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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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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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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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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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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