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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.

Ben Stein

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
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Faults Media People
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless
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
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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Exception People Rich
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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Cancun Heat Summer
I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
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People Thinking Unique
What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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Home Inspirational Parenting
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
I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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Grateful Gratitude Rich
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
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
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
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Academic Challenges Freedom People
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.
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Games Real Sitting Stretch
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

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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