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.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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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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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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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.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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