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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

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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Parent People Successful
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.
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Home Night Sleep
It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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Better Hope Hopeful Inspirational
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.
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Grateful Gratitude Rich
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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Allies Country Middle East
I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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Lucky Taken
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Helping Matter Others
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
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.
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Men Real Stars
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
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Country Gone Wind
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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People Spend Wanted Years
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
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
Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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Asks Believe Country Religion
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless

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