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" It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. "
Oriana Fallaci
Instead
Must
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" This Islam business kidnapped me. "
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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 survive if you do not know the past. "
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" You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both. "
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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'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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" Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America. "
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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 have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. "
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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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" A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. "
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" My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth. "
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" It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces. "
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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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" You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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 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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" 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 feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger. "
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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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" 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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