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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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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
War Correspondent
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Extends
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Language
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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 wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
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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 have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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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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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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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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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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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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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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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 defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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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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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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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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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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