It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
BEN STEINThe 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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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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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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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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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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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.
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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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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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