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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

Ben Stein

I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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Different Doe Large Loss Money
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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Brilliant Evolution Thinking
Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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Country Glee Years
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Much Progress Since
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
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
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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Buisness Car Home Loan Trying
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
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 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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Able Comfortable Used Want
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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Dad Father Sleep Smart
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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Life Motivational Relationship
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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Congress Court Sparks
I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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Believe School Successful
Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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Military Morning Stars
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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Asking Children Stranger

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