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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

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Real Running Valley
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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Ideas Race Racism
It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
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Innocent Manner Million Murder People Theory
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.
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Children Crush Parenting
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Action Table Winning
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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Dad Father Sleep Smart
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Feelings Little Thinking
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.
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Average Far Know Numbershabit Years
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.
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Experts Finance Personal
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Helping Matter Others
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Attempting Disprove Should
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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Anyone Else Long People Person Trying
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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Broke Going Remote
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.
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Devil Dust God Mean Specks
If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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Making Money Recessions
It means zero to be against greed.
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Greed Mean Zero

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