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I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.

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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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 a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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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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True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
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Physical courage is a great test.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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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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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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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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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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