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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.

Ben Stein

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.
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Families Military Taken Thinking
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.
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Buisness Car Home Loan Trying
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Believe Faith Knowing
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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Black Man Men White
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Christian Island Religious
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
It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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Better Hope Hopeful Inspirational
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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Country Hard Work People
No one will do it for you.
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Action Just One Yourself
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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Fields Men Succeed
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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Done Law Rights
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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Government Needs Pay
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Men Thinking Trying
I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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Good Things Thinking
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
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Done Everything Life Pain Real
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

We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.

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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.

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