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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
War Correspondent
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Union
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Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.
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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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Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.
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Physical courage is a great test.
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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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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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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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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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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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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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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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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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If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
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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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