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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

Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
BEN STEIN

Exertion Responsibility Way
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
It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
BEN STEIN

Innocent Manner Million Murder People Theory
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.
BEN STEIN

Law Matter Physics
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
BEN STEIN

Academic Challenges Freedom People
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
BEN STEIN

Done Law Rights
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
BEN STEIN

Cancun Heat Summer
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
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
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEIN

Bed Listening Lying
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEIN

Life Motivational Relationship
It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
BEN STEIN

Determination Inspirational Success
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

Black Man Men White
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
BEN STEIN

Fields Men Succeed
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
BEN STEIN

Credit Law People
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEIN

Action Table Winning

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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