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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.

Ben Stein

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

Exertion Responsibility Way
Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
BEN STEIN

Home Night Sleep
I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
BEN STEIN

Briefly Economist Training Work
As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
BEN STEIN

Media People Personality
I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
BEN STEIN

Best Fun Jobs More Wizard
My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
BEN STEIN

Airplane Country Lying Virginia
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
BEN STEIN

Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
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

Country Dollar Hate
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
BEN STEIN

Believe Christian Tired
The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
BEN STEIN

Allow Harmonize Personality Protect
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
BEN STEIN

Alive Mean Media
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEIN

Life Motivational Relationship
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
BEN STEIN

Become Get Ill Old Scare
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
BEN STEIN

Causes Community Gone
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
BEN STEIN

Interest Occupation Thankless

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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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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