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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.

Ben Stein

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN

Believe Faith Knowing
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.
BEN STEIN

Smart Thinking Wall
We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
BEN STEIN

Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
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.
BEN STEIN

Fighting Reading Writing
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
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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Belief Philosophy 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?
BEN STEIN

Able Comfortable Used Want
The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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Decide First Getting Self Step Want
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
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
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Soul
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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Trying Upset Winning
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Country Gone Wind
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
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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People Reality Successful
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEIN

Car Moving Sleep

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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