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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.

Ben Stein

If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
BEN STEIN

Making Money Recessions
I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
BEN STEIN

Country Human Vote
My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
BEN STEIN

Airplane Country Lying Virginia
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
BEN STEIN

Buisness Car Home Loan Trying
The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
BEN STEIN

First People Running
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.
BEN STEIN

Lucky Taken
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
BEN STEIN

People Reality Successful
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
BEN STEIN

Country Glee Years
We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
BEN STEIN

Country Dollar Hate
It means zero to be against greed.
BEN STEIN

Greed Mean Zero
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
BEN STEIN

Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
BEN STEIN

Devil Dust God Mean Specks
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
BEN STEIN

Ghetto Merry Christmas Thinking
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
BEN STEIN

Brilliant Evolution Thinking
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEIN

Black People 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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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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