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 STEINI don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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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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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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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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Science leads you to killing people.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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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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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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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.
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I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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