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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

We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Faults Media People
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
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
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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Done Law Rights
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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Animal Breathing Mean
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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Average Far Know Numbershabit Years
I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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Class College Teaching
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
I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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Boys Males Surprise
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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Fighting Reading Writing
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Attempting Disprove Should
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
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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Exertion Responsibility Way
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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Belief Philosophy Thinking
I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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Consequences Explain Implication Little Species

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