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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Ben Stein

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.
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Home May Years
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
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Eye Hair Knows
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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Like List Making Sound
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
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
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
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
People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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Exception People Rich
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
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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Fields Men Succeed
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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Doubt Ideas Rumor
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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People Reality Successful
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
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Men Thinking Trying

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