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"Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day, every day, sleeping its life away."
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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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"Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest."
Emotion
"Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone ? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
Emotion
"I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid."
Emotion
"They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle."
Philosophy
"When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money."
History
"Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it had to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun."
Reflection
"If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down."
Love
"Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures."
Culture
"First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down."
Courage
"Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it's life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass."
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