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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

Ben Stein

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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Belief Philosophy Thinking
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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Failure Moving Time
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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People Spend Wanted Years
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 .
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Asks Believe Country Religion
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.
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Trying Upset Winning
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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Country Human Vote
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Eye Hair Knows
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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Lucky Taken
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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Motivational Perseverance Spirit
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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Gratitude Laughter relief
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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Days Hollywood Perfect Vacation
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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Book Interesting Men Reading
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Real Running Valley
When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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Country Party Realizing
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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Black People Wind
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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Wall Writing Years
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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Inquiry Lines Scientist
That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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Beyond Horrifying Just Opinion Science
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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Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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Different Doe Large Loss Money
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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Exertion Responsibility Way
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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Credit Law People
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
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Helping Others Life Use
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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People Reality Successful
I am scared of running out of money.
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Money Running Scared
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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Life Motivational Relationship
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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Compassion Empathy People

It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

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