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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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" To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach! "

" I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. "

" Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. "

" I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. "

" 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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" I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. "

" The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. "

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" Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. "

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" We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. "

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" I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. "

" I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! "

" I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. "

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" I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. "

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" I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. "

" Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. "

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