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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

Ben Stein

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.
BEN STEIN

Airplane Country Lying Virginia
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.
BEN STEIN

Motivational Perseverance Spirit
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
BEN STEIN

Broke Going Remote
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
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.
BEN STEIN

Good Things Thinking
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
BEN STEIN

Government Needs Pay
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
BEN STEIN

Interest Occupation Thankless
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.
BEN STEIN

Devil Dust God Mean Specks
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
BEN STEIN

Feelings Little Thinking
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN

Believe Faith Knowing
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
BEN STEIN

People Reality Successful
I don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
BEN STEIN

Men Real Stars
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEIN

Action Table Winning
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
BEN STEIN

God Stealing Telling Truth
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.
BEN STEIN

Doubt Ideas Rumor
I am scared of running out of money.
BEN STEIN

Money Running Scared

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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

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