You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEINAnd 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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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.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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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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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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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.
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Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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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.
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For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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