I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
BEN STEINAs 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.
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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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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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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.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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