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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

Oriana Fallaci

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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
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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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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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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 never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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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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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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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 cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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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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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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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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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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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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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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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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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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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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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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