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"So life isn't exciting?" continued Gary. "Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight. I'll still have a job on Monday. Yeah?" He turned and looked at Richard.Richard nodded, hesitantly. "Yeah."
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"No one from the beginning of time has had security."
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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."
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"Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem."
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"But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction."
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"I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13."
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"The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight."
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"I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman."
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"Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated."
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"Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double."
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"Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042."
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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
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"I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU are making NEW things, trying NEW things, learning, living, pushing YOURself, changing YOURself, changing YOUR world. YOU're doing things YOU've never done before, n MORE importantly, YOU're doing something."
Growth
"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories."
Storytelling
"There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plane of existence.""They kill themselves, you mean?" said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid."Indeed.""Does it work? Are they happier dead?""Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean."
Mental Health
"Now me, said Mr. Vandemar."What number am I thinking of? "I beg your pardon? "What number am I thinking of? repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot, he added, helpfully."
Mystery
"You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand."
Emotion
"What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?"
Humor
"Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking."
Perception
"If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself."
Creativity
"When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger readers might like and published them as R Is for Rocket and S Is for Space. Now I was doing the same sort of thing, and I asked Ray if he'd mind if I called this book M Is for Magic. (He didn't.)M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises..."
Imagination
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