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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

Ben Stein

Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
BEN STEIN

Home Night Sleep
I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
BEN STEIN

Grateful Gratitude Rich
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.
BEN STEIN

Dad Father Sleep Smart
The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
BEN STEIN

Average Far Know Numbershabit Years
It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
BEN STEIN

Determination Inspirational Success
I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
BEN STEIN

Country People School
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.
BEN STEIN

Government Needs Pay
Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
BEN STEIN

Law Matter Physics
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.
BEN STEIN

Ghetto Merry Christmas Thinking
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.
BEN STEIN

Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
BEN STEIN

Cadillacs Soul
I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
BEN STEIN

Good Things Thinking
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
BEN STEIN

Devil Dust God Mean Specks
I don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
BEN STEIN

Men Real Stars
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
BEN STEIN

People Reality Successful
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEIN

Black People Wind
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
Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEIN

Killing People Religion
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.
BEN STEIN

Airplane Country Lying Virginia
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
BEN STEIN

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

Making Money Recessions
I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
BEN STEIN

Families Military Taken Thinking
I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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Country Evil Thinking
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
BEN STEIN

Interest Occupation Thankless
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.
BEN STEIN

Media People Personality
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
BEN STEIN

Allies Country Middle East
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
BEN STEIN

Exertion Responsibility Way

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

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