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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

Ben Stein

I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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Lucky Taken
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Helping Matter Others
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
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
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Feelings Little Thinking
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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Consequences Explain Implication Little Species
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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Black Man Men White
It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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Determination Inspirational Success
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Christian Island Religious
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
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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Government Needs Pay
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
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Helping Others Life Use
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
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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Goal Pyramids Steps

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