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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.

Ben Stein

What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
BEN STEIN

Home Inspirational Parenting
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
BEN STEIN

Believe Christian Tired
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEIN

Inquiry Lines Scientist
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.
BEN STEIN

Lucky Taken
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEIN

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

Making Money Recessions
If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
BEN STEIN

Cancun Heat Summer
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
BEN STEIN

Motivational Perseverance Spirit
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
BEN STEIN

Goal Pyramids Steps
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEIN

Life Motivational Relationship
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
BEN STEIN

Real Running Valley
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.
BEN STEIN

Parent People Successful
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
BEN STEIN

Country Gone Wind
I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
BEN STEIN

Issues Numbers Thinking
When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
BEN STEIN

Country Party Realizing
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
BEN STEIN

Causes Community Gone

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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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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