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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Ben Stein

I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
BEN STEIN

Egg Insane Quantity Shopping
I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
BEN STEIN

Experts Finance Personal
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.
BEN STEIN

Wall Writing Years
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 STEIN

Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
BEN STEIN

Games Real Sitting Stretch
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
BEN STEIN

Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying
The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
BEN STEIN

Average Far Know Numbershabit Years
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
BEN STEIN

Christian Island Religious
I am scared of running out of money.
BEN STEIN

Money Running Scared
I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
BEN STEIN

Families Military Taken Thinking
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
BEN STEIN

Feelings Little Thinking
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN

Done Maps Planning
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.
BEN STEIN

Home Night Sleep
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
BEN STEIN

Broke Going Remote
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.
BEN STEIN

Design Heaven Intelligent
Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
BEN STEIN

Asks Believe Country Religion
Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
BEN STEIN

Law Matter Physics
I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
BEN STEIN

Issues Numbers Thinking
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
BEN STEIN

Attempting Disprove Should
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEIN

Inquiry Lines Scientist
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
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
BEN STEIN

Men Thinking Trying
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
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
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.
BEN STEIN

Asking Children Stranger
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.
BEN STEIN

Trying Upset Winning

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

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