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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.

Ben Stein

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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People Spend Wanted Years
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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Country Glee Years
I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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Briefly Economist Training Work
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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Done Everything Life Pain Real
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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Devil Dust God Mean Specks
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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Parent People Successful
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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Experts Finance Personal
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Faults Media People
Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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Home May Years
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Feelings Little Thinking
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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Asking Children Stranger
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Helping Matter Others
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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Good Lending Reckless Times
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Hollywood Men Stories
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Much Progress Since

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 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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