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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

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Country Gone Wind
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.
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Innocent Manner Million Murder People Theory
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Men Thinking Trying
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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Country Glee Years
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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People Reality Successful
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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Becoming Beverly Conservative Hills
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
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
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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Determination Inspirational Success
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.
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Devil Dust God Mean Specks
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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Failure Moving Time
My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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Days Hollywood Perfect Vacation
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
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
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.
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Smart Thinking Wall

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