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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

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
Dead
Alive
Living
Death
Sometimes
Kill

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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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Journalism combines adventure with culture.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
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We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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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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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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