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It is normal for every person to feel fear, the important thing is that it is accompanied by courage. You must not let fear overwhelm you, otherwise it becomes an obstacle that prevents you from moving forward.

— Paolo Borsellino

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If young people deny it their consent, even the all-powerful and mysterious mafia will vanish like a nightmare.

It is beautiful to die for what you believe in; those who are afraid die every day, those who are not afraid die only once.

I didn't like Palermo, so I learned to love it, because true love means loving what you don't like so that you can change it.

Talk about the mafia. Talk about it on the radio, on television, in the newspapers. But talk about it.

Politics and the mafia are two powers that live off controlling the same territory: either they wage war against each other or they come to an agreement.

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