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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.

Ben Stein

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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Wall Writing Years
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Real Running Valley
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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Better Hope Hopeful Inspirational
We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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Country Dollar Hate
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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Exception People Rich
It means zero to be against greed.
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Greed Mean Zero
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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Broke Going Remote
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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Causes Community Gone
I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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Friendly Long People
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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Fields Men Succeed
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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Motivational Perseverance Spirit
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Done Maps Planning
The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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Allow Harmonize Personality Protect
Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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Military Morning Stars

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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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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