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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.

Oriana Fallaci

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
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War Correspondent
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Florence
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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 defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
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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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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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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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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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Physical courage is a great test.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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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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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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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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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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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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