The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEINI spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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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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I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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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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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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