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 STEINThe sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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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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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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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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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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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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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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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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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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