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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

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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Media People Personality
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Feelings Little Thinking
I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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Atheist Country Ideas
The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
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First People Running
I’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.
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Country People School
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Much Progress Since
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Bed Listening Lying
I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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Lucky Taken
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.
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Gratitude Laughter relief
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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Believe Book Legend
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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Done Everything Life Pain Real
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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Men Talking Thinking
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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Inquiry Lines Scientist
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 human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace

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