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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.

Ben Stein

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
BEN STEIN

Country Gone Wind
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.
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Book Interesting Men Reading
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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Devil Dust God Mean Specks
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
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Soul
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
BEN STEIN

Feelings Little Thinking
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
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Real Running Valley
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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Good Lending Reckless Times
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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Car Moving Sleep
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.
BEN STEIN

Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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Believe School Successful
It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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America Beautiful Sleep
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

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