"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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Source : "A Sermon for the West". Address to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute, October 22, 2002.

Oriana Fallaci

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“A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.”
“I just want to have a completely adventurous, passionate, weird life.”
“I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to be back in France and Germany, and I want people to enjoy these books for the writing and not because they feel they can laugh - some will laugh - at these eccentric places, that's not what I intend.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13)?”
“To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.”
“You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.”
“I feel a lot more comfortable on stage in the theatre. It just reminds me of being a kid and doing pantomimes.”
“Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.”

Source : Interview With Kelli Acciardo, www.seventeen.com. April 15, 2011.

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