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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.

Ben Stein

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
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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Different Doe Large Loss Money
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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Animal Breathing Mean
It means zero to be against greed.
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Greed Mean Zero
Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
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Law Matter Physics
Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
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Home Night Sleep
Science leads you to killing people.
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Killing People Religion
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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Beautiful People Tree
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
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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Goal Pyramids Steps
My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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Airplane Country Lying Virginia
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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Cancun Heat Summer
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.
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Buisness Car Home Loan 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.
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Fighting Reading Writing
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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Doubt Ideas Rumor

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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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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