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Lennart Meri

"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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"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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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"Most people want security in this world, not liberty."

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Asa Don Brown

"Stop seeking security. There is none."

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Asa Don Brown

"For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"Weaponry is a fear-raising idea."

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Asa Don Brown

"F.B.I and C.I.A use coded words.... Don't be stupid, remove everything which shows the location. Good Luck Killer :)!"

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Asa Don Brown

"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."

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