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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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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.



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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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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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