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"Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe."
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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."

"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."

"The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part."

"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."

"Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse."

"I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13."
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"We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions."

"It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right."

"Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them."

"We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine."

"I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive."
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