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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.

Ben Stein

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEIN

Car Moving Sleep
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
BEN STEIN

Ideas Race Racism
I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
BEN STEIN

Ago Anticipate Seems
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
BEN STEIN

Christian Island Religious
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
BEN STEIN

Anyone Else Long People Person Trying
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
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.
BEN STEIN

Parent People Successful
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
BEN STEIN

Animal Breathing Mean
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
BEN STEIN

Cancun Heat Summer
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
BEN STEIN

League Media Wife
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEIN

Life Motivational Relationship
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
BEN STEIN

Men Thinking Trying
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
BEN STEIN

Fighting Reading Writing
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.
BEN STEIN

Average Far Know Numbershabit Years
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
BEN STEIN

Goal Pyramids Steps
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN

Belief Philosophy Thinking

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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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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