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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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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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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
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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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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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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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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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