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"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."
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"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."
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"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."
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"We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals."
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"Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can't be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that's never been created is God."
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"Most people want security in this world, not liberty."
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"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."
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"Stop seeking security. There is none."
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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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"Weaponry is a fear-raising idea."
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"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."
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"Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another."
Time
"Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave."
Time
"Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect."
Intellectual
"Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature."
Nature
"History is more interesting than politics."
History
"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
Politics
"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me."
World
"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world."
World
"In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary."
Time
"If geography is prose, maps are iconography."
Knowledge
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