Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEINI’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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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.
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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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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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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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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.
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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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