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" I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. "
Oriana Fallaci
Books
Opinion
Through
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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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" Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is. "
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" I am a danger to myself if I get angry. "
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" My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth. "
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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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" It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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 am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. "
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" I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. "
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" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. "
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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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" 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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" I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. "
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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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" We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. "
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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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" 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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" A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. "
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" I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide! "
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" I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children. "
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" It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. "
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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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