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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

Ben Stein

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

Inspirational Life Motivational
It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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Better Hope Hopeful Inspirational
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
I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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Ago Anticipate Seems
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
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Hollywood Men Stories
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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Government Needs Pay
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Faults Media People
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.
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Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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Credit Law People
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
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Helping Matter Others
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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Country Evil Thinking
I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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Experts Finance Personal
It means zero to be against greed.
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Greed Mean Zero

I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

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