The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
BEN STEINPeople getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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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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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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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.
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Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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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.
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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.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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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It means zero to be against greed.
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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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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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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 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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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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