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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Ben Stein

If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
BEN STEIN

Making Money Recessions
That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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Beyond Horrifying Just Opinion Science
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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Ghetto Merry Christmas Thinking
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
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Helping Others Life Use
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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Become Get Ill Old Scare
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
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
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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Citizens Government Hypocrisy
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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Country Hard Work People
It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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Birthday Men Smart
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
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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Doubt Ideas Rumor
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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Beautiful Men Years
Science leads you to killing people.
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Killing People Religion
I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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Country Human Vote
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Real Running Valley

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

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