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" I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple! "
Oriana Fallaci
Atheist
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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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" 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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" I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see? "
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" I don't want to hear about my death. "
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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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" We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' 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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" Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. "
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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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" I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. "
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" A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. "
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" Heroes can be sweet. "
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" I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. "
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" The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization. "
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Duty
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" Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. "
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More
Warrior
" Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.' "
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Body
" I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. "
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" What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. "
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" When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die. "
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Child
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" Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. "
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" Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face. "
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" 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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" 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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" I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. "
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" War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. "
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" Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. "
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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 am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. "
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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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