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Oriana Fallaci Quotes: With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
         

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.


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With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
         



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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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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.



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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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If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.



The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.



I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.



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No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.





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