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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’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
BEN STEIN

Country People School
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Faults Media People
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
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.
BEN STEIN

Games Real Sitting Stretch
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
I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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Atheist Country Ideas
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful People Tree
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
BEN STEIN

Becoming Beverly Conservative Hills
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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Become Get Ill Old Scare
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
BEN STEIN

Eye Hair Knows
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.
BEN STEIN

Trying Upset Winning
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Much Progress Since
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEIN

Compassion Empathy People
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEIN

Car Moving Sleep
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEIN

Life Motivational Relationship

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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