Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
BEN STEINThe 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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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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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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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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I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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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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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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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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