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.
BEN STEINIt’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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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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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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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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That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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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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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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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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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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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