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" We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. "
Oriana Fallaci
Leaders
End
Without
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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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" 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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" 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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" I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to. "
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" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. "
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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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" 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 am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man. "
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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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" 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 increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. "
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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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" 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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" You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. "
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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 defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. "
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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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" You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both. "
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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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" A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. "
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" I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. "
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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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