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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

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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
Hard
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America

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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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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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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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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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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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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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Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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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 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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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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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'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.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
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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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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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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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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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