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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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"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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"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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"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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"Weaponry is a fear-raising idea."
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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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"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."
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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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"I do not believe they've run out of surprises."
Innovation
"I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors."
Love
"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."
Friendship
"SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off."
Time
"My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names."
Security
"As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease."
Family
"I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."
Medical
"Treat your life like something to be sculpted."
Life
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
Building
"I love superconductors."
Love
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