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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Ben Stein

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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God Stealing Telling Truth
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Much Progress Since
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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Dad Father Sleep Smart
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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Broke Going Remote
No one will do it for you.
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Action Just One Yourself
I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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Ago Anticipate Seems
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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Citizens Paradoxical Prove
For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
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Design Heaven Intelligent
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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Trying Upset Winning
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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Becoming Beverly Conservative Hills
I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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Believe School Successful
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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Credit Law People
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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Citizens Government Hypocrisy
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Action Table Winning
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
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Done Everything Life Pain Real
We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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Airplane Country Lying Virginia
It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
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Games Real Sitting Stretch
As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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Media People Personality
I am scared of running out of money.
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Money Running Scared
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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Ghetto Merry Christmas Thinking
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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Causes Community Gone
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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Ideas Race Racism
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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Done Law Rights

If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.

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