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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.

Ben Stein

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
BEN STEIN

Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.
BEN STEIN

Children Crush Parenting
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.
BEN STEIN

Citizens Paradoxical Prove
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
BEN STEIN

Asking Children Stranger
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEIN

Action Table Winning
When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
BEN STEIN

Men Talking Thinking
I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
BEN STEIN

Smart Thinking Wall
People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
BEN STEIN

Exception People Rich
The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
BEN STEIN

First People Running
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN

Believe Faith Knowing
The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
BEN STEIN

Allow Harmonize Personality Protect
Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
BEN STEIN

Home May Years
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
BEN STEIN

Faults Media People
The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
BEN STEIN

Decide First Getting Self Step Want
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
BEN STEIN

Book Interesting Men Reading
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
BEN STEIN

Alive Complexes Humans

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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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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