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Ben Stein

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.
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Smart Thinking Wall
If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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Making Money Recessions
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Hollywood Men Stories
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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Country Glee Years
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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Become Get Ill Old Scare
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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Beautiful People Tree
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
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
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
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.
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Good Things Thinking
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
We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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Country Dollar Hate
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.
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First People Running
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
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.
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Asking Children Stranger
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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Brilliant Evolution Thinking
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
The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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Double Real Stand Star Stunt
I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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Able Comfortable Used Want
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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Different Doe Large Loss Money
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
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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Like List Making Sound
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
No one will do it for you.
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Action Just One Yourself
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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Hate Moon Russia
Science leads you to killing people.
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Killing People Religion
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Attempting Disprove Should

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