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" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. "
Oriana Fallaci
Survive
Cannot
Know
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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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" 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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" 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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" It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces. "
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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 known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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