I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEINThe successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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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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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.
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No one will do it for you.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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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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I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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