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" I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work. "
Oriana Fallaci
Stay
Never
Work
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" The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. "
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" You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both. "
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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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" 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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" A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. "
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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 am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. "
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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! "
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" 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. "
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" You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. "
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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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" Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? "
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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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" It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. "
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Must
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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. "
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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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" I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. "
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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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End
Without
" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. "
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" Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? "
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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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" I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. "
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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! "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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