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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.

Ben Stein

We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
BEN STEIN

Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
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
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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Hate Moon Russia
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
BEN STEIN

Becoming Beverly Conservative Hills
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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Parent People Successful
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Real Running Valley
I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
BEN STEIN

Smart Thinking Wall
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
BEN STEIN

Attempting Disprove Should
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
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
BEN STEIN

Egg Insane Quantity Shopping
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN

Action Just One Yourself
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
BEN STEIN

Good Lending Reckless Times
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
BEN STEIN

Become Get Ill Old Scare
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.
BEN STEIN

Different Doe Large Loss Money
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
BEN STEIN

Gratitude Laughter relief
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
BEN STEIN

Fields Men Succeed

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