I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
BEN STEINCould 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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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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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
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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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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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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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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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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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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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